California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3.15 - Preexisting Condition Provisions

• Section 1357.50.
  (a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Health benefit plan” means a health care service plan contract that provides medical, hospital, and surgical...
• Section 1357.51.
  (a) A health benefit plan for group coverage shall not impose any preexisting condition provision or waivered condition provision upon any enrollee.(b) (1) A nongrandfathered health benefit plan...
• Section 1357.52.
  A health benefit plan for group coverage shall not establish rules for eligibility, including continued eligibility, of an individual, or dependent of an individual, to...
• Section 1357.55.
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2014.(Repealed (in Sec. 5) and added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 852, Sec. 4. (AB 1083) Effective January...

Last modified: October 22, 2018