Bill Text: MI HB4620 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance: health insurers; denying coverage for preexisting conditions; prohibit, and prohibit canceling coverage based on health of insured. Amends 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.100 - 500.8302) by adding sec. 3406ii.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-19 - Assigned Pa 157'23 [HB4620 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4620-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4620
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled
"The insurance code of 1956,"
(MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3406z.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 3406z. (1) An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy shall not limit or exclude coverage for an individual by imposing a preexisting condition exclusion on the individual.
(2) This section does not apply to any of the following:
(a) A grandfathered health plan that provides individual health insurance coverage.
(b) Insurance coverage that provides benefits for any of the following:
(i) Hospital confinement indemnity.
(ii) Disability income.
(iii) Accident only.
(iv) Long-term care.
(v) Medicare supplemental.
(vi) Limited benefit health.
(vii) Specified disease indemnity.
(viii) Sickness or bodily injury, or death by accident, or both.
(ix) Other limited benefit policies.
(3) As used in this section, "preexisting condition exclusion" means a limitation or exclusion of benefits or a denial of coverage based on a physical or mental condition being present before the effective date of coverage or before the date coverage is denied, whether or not any medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received for the condition before the date of coverage or denial of coverage.
