Title 52, Title 52: STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS

52:14-17.29dd SHBC to cover preventive services. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital or medical expense benefits shall provide coverage, without r…

52:14-17.29e SHBC to provide benefits for mental health conditions, substance use disorders; collaborative care model. 2. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides …

52:14-17.29ee State Health Benefit Commission to cover adolescent depression screenings. 9. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission, on or after the effective date of this act, that provides hospital or medical expense ben…

52:14-17.29f. Pap smear benefits in State health benefits contracts 6. The State Health Benefits Commission shall provide benefits to each person covered under the State Health Benefits Program for expenses incurred in conducting a Pap smear. The benefits shall be provided to the…

52:14-17.29ff State Health Benefits Program, opioid antidote coverage. 3. a. Notwithstanding any law or regulation to the contrary, the State Health Benefits Commission and the School Employees' Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract under the State Health Be…

52:14-17.29g Notice to enrollees in State Health Benefits Program managed care plans if primary care physician is terminated from plan. 1. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.20…

52:14-17.29gg SHBC to cover newborn home nurse visitation. 14. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall provide benefits to each person covered under the State Health Benefits Program for expenses incurred for services provided under the newborn home nurse visitation program…

52:14-17.29h State Health Benefits Commission contracts to cover certain out-of-network services. 11. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased or renewed by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.2001, c.367 (C.26:2S-6.1 et al.…

52:14-17.29hh SHBC, coverage for abortion, certain religious employers exemption. 4. A contract providing hospital or medical expense benefits purchased by the State Health Benefits Commission may provide coverage for abortion. A contract providing hospital or medical expense ben…

52:14-17.29i State Health Benefits Program, coverage for mammograms. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall provide benefits to each person covered under the State Health Benefits Program for expenses incurred in conducting: (1) one baseline mammogram examination for wo…

52:14-17.29ii Full-time firefighters to be screened for cancer. 1. a. A firefighter employed as a full-time paid employee of a fire department or unit of this State or a political subdivision of this State shall be provided a cancer screening examination conducted by a physician …

52:14-17.29j SHBC, coverage for contraceptives. 10. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act shall provide benefits for expenses incurred in the purchase of prescription female …

52:14-17.29jj State Health Benefits Commission, contract, provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act, that provides hospital o…

52:14-17.29k Coverage for certain dependents until age 31 by insurers covered by SHBP. 7. a. As used in this section, "dependent" means a covered person's child by blood or by law who: (1) is 30 years of age or younger; (2) is unmarried; (3) has no dependent of his own; (4) is a …

52:14-17.29kk State Health Benefits Commission, ensure, contract purchased, renewed, coverage, insulin for diabetes treatment. 25. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased or renewed by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.20…

52:14-17.29l Disease and chronic care management plan. 31. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) to provide benefits under the State managed care plans…

52:14-17.29ll State Health Benefits Commission, ensure, contract purchased, renewed, coverage, epinephrine auto-injector device. 26. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased or renewed by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.…

52:14-17.29m State health benefits plan to provide benefits for orthotic and prosthetic appliances. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.345 (C.17:48-6ff et al.) that …

52:14-17.29mm State Health Benefits Commission, ensure, contract purchased, renewed, coverage, prescription asthma inhaler. 27. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased or renewed by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.2023,…

52:14-17.29n State Health Benefits Commission to provide coverage for hearing aids, cochlear implant for covered persons. 10. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall, on or after the effective date of this act, provide benefits for medically necessary expenses incurred in t…

52:14-17.29nn Biomarker precision medical testing coverage, State Health Benefits Commission contracts. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract providing hospital or medical expense benefits, which is purchased by the commission on or after the…

52:14-17.29o SHBC to provide for installment payments to obstetrical provider for maternity services. 9. a. Within 30 days of the effective date of this act, the State Health Benefits Commission shall provide, in every health benefits plan that provides for maternity services, fo…

52:14-17.29oo State Health Benefits Commission, HIV preexposure prophylaxis, HIV postexposure prophylaxis. 12. a. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the State Health Benefits Commission shall provide benefits to each person covered under the State Health …

52:14-17.29p SHBP contracts to provide benefits for treatment of autism or other developmental disability. 9. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after …

52:14-17.29pp Benefits provided under contracts purchased by the State Health Benefits Commission. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of P.L.2025, c.200 (C. 17:48-6bbb et al.), tha…

52:14-17.29qq Contracts purchased by the State Health Benefits Commission, behavioral health, children. 2. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital and me…

52:14-17.29r SHBC to provide coverage for oral anticancer medications. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital or medical expense benefits shall provide coverage for ex…

52:14-17.29s SHBC to provide coverage for prescription eye drops. 9. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital or medical expense benefits that include covera…

52:14-17.29t State Health Benefits Program, coverage for synchronization of prescribed medications. 9. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract under the State Health Benefits Program purchased on or after the effective date of this act, which provide…

52:14-17.29u SHBP to provide benefits for treatment of substance use disorder. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act provides unlimited benefits for inpatient and outpatie…

52:14-17.29v State Health Benefits Program to provide coverage for treatment of infertility. 6. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract under the State Health Benefits Program shall provide coverage for medically necessary expenses, as determined by …

52:14-17.29w State Health Benefits Commission to provide coverage, payment. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased thereby, which provides hospital and medical expense benefits, additionally provides coverage and payment for health c…

52:14-17.29x State Health Benefits Commission contracts to provide coverage regardless of gender identity, expression. 9. a. Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, the State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commiss…

52:14-17.29y SHBC to cover digital tomosynthesis of the breast. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital and medical expense benefits shall provide cov…

52:14-17.29z SHBC to provide coverage for donated human breast milk. 9. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract purchased by the commission on or after the effective date of this act that provides hospital or medical expense benefits shall provide…

52:14-17.3. Time for appeal Any such appeal shall be taken within twenty days from the date of the making of the removal order by filing a notice of appeal with the Appellate Division and the Secretary of State. L.1948, c. 118, p. 828, s. 3. Amended by L.1953, c. 49, p. 855, s. 7…

52:14-17.30 State payment of premium, periodic charges. 6. a. For each active covered State employee and for the eligible dependents the employee may have enrolled at the employee's option, the State, from funds appropriated therefor, shall pay its share of the premium or periodi…

52:14-17.30a Findings, declarations relative to health care costs. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The cost of health care in this country has been increasing at a pace that will make our current system of health care delivery unsustainable on its present trajector…

52:14-17.30b Contract for services of a third-party medical claims reviewer. 2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a contract for the services of a third-party medical claims reviewer for the State Health Benefits Program and the School Employees'…

52:14-17.30c Contract entered, State Health Benefits Commission, School Employees' Health Benefits Commission, vendor, compliance, time frames. 25. Following the effective date of P.L.2023, c.296 (C.17B:30-55.1 et al.), a contract entered into by the State Health Benefits Commiss…

52:14-17.31 Effective date of coverage; rules, regulations; information provided to division. 7. The coverage provided solely for employees shall, subject to the provisions below, automatically become effective for all eligible employees from the first day on or after the effecti…

52:14-17.31.1 Effective dates of coverage, State Health Benefits Program, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, an eligible resident or fellow physician employed by Rutgers, The State …

52:14-17.31a Employee permitted to waive benefits coverage under SHBP. 36. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, an employer other than the State which participates in the State Health Benefits Program, established pursuant to P.L.1961, c.49 (C.52:14…

52:14-17.32 Health care benefits for retirees. 8. a. The health care benefits coverage of any employee, and the employee's dependents, if any, shall cease upon the discontinuance of the term of office or employment or upon cessation of active full-time employment subject to such …

52:14-17.32a1 Funding of health care benefits for retired State employees under C.52:14-17.25 et seq. 48. Effective July 1, 2007, health care benefits for retired State employees and their dependents for which the State is required to pay the premiums or periodic charges under th…

52:14-17.32b. Cessation of active full-time employment; payment of premiums The cessation of active full-time employment shall be deemed to occur on the last day of the coverage period for which premiums have been paid and such premiums will be required if the employee receives p…