376.820. Insurers may not deny coverage of child because of marital status of parents, residence or income tax dependency claim. - Missouri Statutes

Insurers may not deny coverage of child because of marital status ofparents, residence or income tax dependency claim.

376.820. No individual or group insurance policy providing coverage onan expense-incurred basis, no individual or group service or indemnitycontract issued by a not-for-profit health services corporation, no healthmaintenance organization nor any self-insured group health benefit plan of anytype or description shall be offered, issued or renewed in this state on orafter July 1, 1994, by an insurer, including a group health plan, as definedin section 607(1) of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of1974, that denies enrollment of a child under the health coverage of thechild's parent on the grounds that:

(1) The child was born out of wedlock; or

(2) The child is not claimed as a dependent on the parent's federalincome tax return; or

(3) The child does not reside with the parent or in the insurer'sservice area.

(L. 1994 H.B. 1491 & 1134 merged with S.B. 508)

Effective 7-1-94