Bill > A3745

Introduced Session

This bill requires health insurers (health, hospital and medical service corporations, commercial individual and group health insurers, health maintenance organizations, health benefits plans issued pursuant to the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage and Small Employer Health Benefits Programs, the State Health Benefits Program, and the School Employees' Health Benefits Program) and the State Medicaid program to provide coverage for medical expenses incurred in the treatment of stuttering, including habilitative speech therapy and rehabilitative speech therapy. Whether treatment is a medical necessity or is neurogenic or developmental is to be determined by the covered person's medical doctor. The bill requires coverage to be provided whether the services are delivered in-person or through telemedicine or telehealth. Pursuant to the bill, "habilitative speech therapy" means speech therapy that helps a person keep, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living; and "rehabilitative speech therapy" means speech therapy that helps a person restore or improve skills and functioning for daily living that have been lost or impaired.

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Alixon Collazos-Gill (D)*,  Shama Haider (D)*,  Andrea Katz (D)*,  Alaa Abdelaziz (D),  Bob Auth (R),  Mitchelle Drulis (D),  Lou Greenwald (D),  Dan Hutchison (D),  Melinda Kane (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Antwan McClellan (R),  Tennille McCoy (D),  Cody Miller (D),  Carol Murphy (D),  Ellen Park (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  William Sampson (D),  Shanique Speight (D),  Sterley Stanley (D),  Lisa Swain (D),  Chris Tully (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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