2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 59A: Insurance Code
Article 23E: Health Insurance Portability, 59A-23E-1 through 59A-23E-20
Section 59A-23E-4: Group health plan; group health insurance; prohibition of exclusions in certain cases.
59A-23E-4. Group health plan; group health insurance; prohibition of exclusions in certain cases.
A. A group health plan or a health insurer offering group health insurance shall not impose a preexisting condition exclusion:
(1) in the case of an individual who, as of the last day of the thirty-day period beginning with the date of birth, is covered under creditable coverage;
(2) that excludes a child who is adopted or placed for adoption before his eighteenth birthday and who, as of the last day of the thirty-day period beginning on and following the date of the adoption or placement for adoption, is covered under creditable coverage; or
(3) that relates to or includes pregnancy as a preexisting condition.
B. The provisions of Paragraphs (1) and (2) of Subsection A of this section do not apply to any individual after the end of the first continuous sixty-three-day period during which the individual was not covered under any creditable coverage.
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