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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 52, STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS
Chapter 14: "Department" and "head of department" defined
Section: 52:14-17.46.6l: School Employees' Health Benefits Commission not to provide coverage for certain early elective deliveries.
5. a. Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, the School Employees' Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital and medical expense benefits shall not provide coverage for a non-medically indicated early elective delivery performed at a hospital on a pregnant woman earlier than the 39th week of gestation.
b. As used in this section, "non-medically indicated early elective delivery" means the artificial start of the birth process through medical interventions or other methods, also known as labor induction, or the surgical delivery of a baby via a cesarean section for purposes or reasons that are not fully consistent with established standards of clinical care as provided by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
L.2019, c.87, s.5.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2019-10-28 14:46:32.
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