Sec. 356z.57. Pediatric palliative care. (a) A group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 shall provide coverage for community-based pediatric palliative care and hospice care. This care shall be delivered to any qualifying child with a serious illness by a trained interdisciplinary team that allows a child to receive community-based pediatric palliative care and hospice care while continuing to pursue curative treatment and disease-directed therapies for the qualifying illness. (b) As used in this Section, "palliative care" and "serious illness" have the same meaning as set forth in the Pediatric Palliative Care Act.
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