1. (a) An insurer or nonprofit health service plan that issues or delivers an individual, group, or blanket health insurance policy or contract in the State, or a health maintenance organization that issues or delivers an individual or group contract in the State, may not exclude payments for blood products, both derivatives and components, that otherwise would be covered under the health insurance contract.
2. (b) This section does not apply to whole blood or concentrated red blood cells.

Added by Acts 1997, c. 35, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2014, c. 355, § 2, eff. June 1, 2014.

Formerly Art. 48A, §§ 354E, 470G, 477H.