2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 59A - Insurance Code
Article 23E - Health Insurance Portability
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.
History: Laws 1997, ch. 243, 4; 1998, ch. 41, 8.