RS 2921 - Requirement for access to coverage for individuals diagnosed with a terminal condition
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, no health benefit paid directly or indirectly with state funds including but not limited to Medicaid shall deny coverage for medically necessary treatment prescribed by a physician and agreed to by a fully informed individual or, if the individual lacks legal capacity to consent, by a person who has legal authority to consent on the individual's behalf, based solely on an individual's life expectancy or the fact that the individual has been diagnosed with a terminal condition.
B. Refusing coverage for medically necessary treatment to be rendered to an individual based solely on the individual's life expectancy or the fact that the individual has been diagnosed with a terminal condition shall be a violation of this Section.
C. As used in this Section, "terminal condition" means any malignancy or chronic end-stage cardiovascular or cerebral vascular disease that is likely to result in the individual's death.
Acts 2014, No. 541, §2, eff. June 5, 2014.