Coverage of cancer monitoring test.

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(a) Every individual health, sickness or accident insurance policy, contract or certificate, which is delivered or issued for delivery in this State by any health insurer, health service corporation or health maintenance organization, and which provide benefits for outpatient services, shall provide to covered persons residing in this State a benefit for CA-125 monitoring of ovarian cancer subsequent to treatment. Such monitoring shall be deemed a covered service, notwithstanding any policy exclusions for services which are considered experimental or investigative; provided however, that nothing contained herein shall be deemed to provide coverage for routine screening.

(b) Nothing in this section shall prevent the operation of such policy provisions as deductibles, coinsurance, allowable charge limitations, coordination of benefits or provisions restricting coverage to services by licensed, certified or carrier-approved providers or facilities.

(c) This act shall apply to all policies, contracts or certificates which are issued, renewed, modified, altered, amended or reissued after September 1, 1994.


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