Bill > A1987

This bill authorizes home care for individuals who are disabled or elderly with mobility issues and requires health insurance coverage for such home care services. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Allowing health care professionals to provide care or treatment to disabled or elderly individuals in their homes if the individual is unable to visit a health care facility and the professional can provide adequate care. 2. Requiring group and individual health insurance plans, including hospital service corporations, medical service corporations, health service corporations, and health maintenance organizations, to provide benefits for home care services to the same extent as for any other medical condition. 3. Defining "home care" as preventative, primary, specialty, or urgent care or treatment provided by a licensed health care professional, such as a physician or nurse practitioner, to a disabled or elderly individual with mobility issues in their home. 4. Applying these requirements to all relevant insurance contracts and policies in which the insurer/corporation has reserved the right to change the premium. 5. Requiring the State Health Benefits Commission to ensure all contracts it purchases provide coverage for home care expenses.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/A1987