Section 145C.12 Prohibited Practices - Minnesota Statutes

145C.12 PROHIBITED PRACTICES.

Subdivision 1.Health care provider.

A health care provider, health care service plan, insurer, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital plan may not condition admission to a facility, or the providing of treatment or insurance, on the requirement that an individual execute a health care directive.

Subd. 2.Insurance.

A policy of life insurance is not legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawing of health care pursuant to the direction of a health care agent appointed pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to the implementation of health care instructions under this chapter.

History:

1993 c 312 s 13; 1998 c 399 s 23