52:14-17.46.6g School Employees Health Benefits Program to provide coverage for treatment of infertility.

7. The School Employees Health Benefits Commission shall ensure that every contract under the School Employees Health Benefits Program shall provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility as provided pursuant to this section. The School Employees Health Benefits Program contract shall provide coverage which includes, but is not limited to, the following services related to infertility: diagnosis and diagnostic tests; medications; surgery; in vitro fertilization; embryo transfer; artificial insemination; gamete intra fallopian transfer; zygote intra fallopian transfer; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; and four completed egg retrievals per lifetime of the covered person. The School Employees Health Benefits Commission may provide that coverage for in vitro fertilization, gamete intra fallopian transfer and zygote intra fallopian transfer shall be limited to a covered person who: a. has used all reasonable, less expensive and medically appropriate treatments and is still unable to become pregnant or carry a pregnancy; b. has not reached the limit of four completed egg retrievals; and c. is 45 years of age or younger.

For purposes of this section, "infertility" means a disease or condition that results in the abnormal function of the reproductive system, as determined pursuant to American Society for Reproductive Medicine practice guidelines by a physician who is Board Certified or Board Eligible in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility or in Obstetrics and Gynecology or any one of the following conditions:

(1) A male is unable to impregnate a female;

(2) A female with a male partner and under 35 years of age is unable to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse;

(3) A female with a male partner and 35 years of age and over is unable to conceive after six months of unprotected sexual intercourse;

(4) A female without a male partner and under 35 years of age who is unable to conceive after 12 failed attempts of intrauterine insemination under medical supervision;

(5) A female without a male partner and over 35 years of age who is unable to conceive after six failed attempts of intrauterine insemination under medical supervision;

(6) Partners are unable to conceive as a result of involuntary medical sterility;

(7) A person is unable to carry a pregnancy to live birth; or

(8) A previous determination of infertility pursuant to this section.

The benefits shall be provided to the same extent as for other pregnancy-related procedures under the contract, except that the services provided for in this section shall be performed at facilities that conform to standards established by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine or the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The same copayments, deductibles and benefit limits shall apply to the diagnosis and treatment of infertility pursuant to this section as those applied to other medical or surgical benefits under the contract. Infertility resulting from voluntary sterilization procedures shall be excluded under the contract for the coverage required by this section.

L.2017, c.48, s.7.