1. A health maintenance organization that offers or issues a group health care plan or a plan that provides health care services through managed care to recipients of Medicaid under the State Plan for Medicaid shall include in the plan coverage for noninvasive prenatal screening at any time during pregnancy. Such coverage must be provided without prior authorization.
2. A health care plan subject to the provisions of this section that is delivered, issued for delivery or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, has the legal effect of including the coverage required by subsection 1, and any provision of the plan that conflicts with the provisions of this section is void.
3. As used in this section, “noninvasive prenatal screening” means drawing blood from a person who is pregnant to perform laboratory analysis on the deoxyribonucleic acid circulating in the maternal blood stream for the purpose of detecting chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus.