Title: Excluding Gender for Health Insurance Deliberation
Signed by Governor Bill Richardson
Title: Excluding Gender for Health Insurance Deliberation
Vote to pass a bill that restricts the ability of health care providers to charge different rates based on a person's gender.
-Specifies that in determining the initial and any subsequent year's health insurance rate, the difference in rates in any one age group that may be charged on the basis of a person's gender shall not exceed another person's rates in the age group by more than the following percentage of the lower rate; provided, however, that gender shall not be used as a rating factor for policies issued or delivered on or after January 1, 2014 (Secs. 1,3,4,5):
Title: Excluding Gender for Health Insurance Deliberation
Vote to pass a bill that restricts the ability of health care providers to charge different rates based on a person's gender.
-Specifies that in determining the initial and any subsequent year's health insurance rate, the difference in rates in any one age group that may be charged on the basis of a person's gender shall not exceed another person's rates in the age group by more than the following percentage of the lower rate; provided, however, that gender shall not be used as a rating factor for policies issued or delivered on or after January 1, 2014 (Secs. 1,3,4,5):
Title: Excluding Gender for Health Insurance Deliberation