2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 17 - CORPORATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR FINANCE AND INSURANCE
Section 17:48E-35.4 - Health service corporation contract, mammogram examination benefits.
17:48E-35.4 Health service corporation contract, mammogram examination benefits.
3.No group or individual health service corporation contract providing hospital or medical expense benefits shall be delivered, issued, executed or renewed in this State or approved for issuance or renewal in this State by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or after the effective date of this act, unless the contract provides benefits to any subscriber or other person covered thereunder for expenses incurred in conducting: one baseline mammogram examination for women who are at least 35 but less than 40 years of age; a mammogram examination every year for women age 40 and over; and, in the case of a woman who is under 40 years of age and has a family history of breast cancer or other breast cancer risk factors, a mammogram examination at such age and intervals as deemed medically necessary by the woman's health care provider.
These benefits shall be provided to the same extent as for any other sickness under the contract.
The provisions of this section shall apply to all contracts in which the health service corporation has reserved the right to change the premium.
L.1991,c.279,s.3; amended 1999, c.341, s.3; 2004, c.86, s.3.
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