Prohibiting discrimination based on health status

against individual participants and beneficiaries. A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall not establish rules for eligibility or continued eligibility of any individual to enroll or continue to participate in a health plan, or eligibility or continued eligibility for benefits, based on any of the following factors in relation to the individual or a dependent of the individual: A. health status; B. medical condition, including both physical and mental illnesses; C. claims experience; D. receipt of health care; E. medical history; F. genetic information; G. evidence of insurability, including conditions arising out of acts of domestic violence; H. disability; I. gender; J. national origin; K. sexual orientation; or L. any other health status-related factor that the superintendent specifies in rules of the office of superintendent of insurance. History: Laws 1997, ch. 243, § 11; 1998, ch. 41, § 15; 2019, ch. 259, § 10.