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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2J-4.42

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
8. a. A health maintenance organization contract that provides hospital or medical expense benefits and is 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, shall provide coverage for expenses incurred in the provision of pasteurized donated human breast milk, which may include human milk fortifiers if indicated by the prescribing licensed medical practitioner, provided that:

(1) the covered person is an infant under the age of six months;

(2) the milk is obtained from a human milk bank that meets quality guidelines established by the Department of Health; and

(3) a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for an infant who is medically or physically unable to receive maternal breast milk or participate in breast feeding or whose mother is medically or physically unable to produce maternal breast milk in sufficient quantities or participate in breast feeding despite optimal lactation support; or

(4) a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for an infant who meets any of the following conditions:

(a) a body weight below healthy levels determined by the licensed medical practitioner;

(b) a congenital or acquired condition that places the infant at a high risk for development of necrotizing enterocolitis; or

(c) a congenital or acquired condition that may benefit from the use of donor breast milk as determined by the Department of Health.

b. The provisions of this section shall apply to those contracts for health care services by health maintenance organizations under which the health maintenance organization has reserved the right to change the schedule of charges.

c. Nothing in this section shall preclude the health maintenance organization from performing utilization review, including periodic review of the medical necessity of a particular service.

d. The benefits shall be provided to the same extent as for any other prescribed items under the contract.

e. If there is no supply of human breast milk that meets the requirements of paragraph (2) of subsection a. of this section, the health maintenance organization shall not be required to provide coverage of expenses pursuant to this section.

L.2017, c.309, s.8.

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