MN HF1080

Health plans and group health plans providing organ transplant coverage are prohibited from denying coverage or eligibility based on an enrollee's disability.

Health plans cannot penalize providers or reduce reimbursement to incentivize them to provide transplant care inconsistent with nondiscrimination requirements, and cannot reduce coverage benefits for transplant-related services based on disability.

Healthcare providers and entities matching organ donors cannot deem individuals ineligible for transplants, deny transplant services, refuse referrals, or place individuals lower on waiting lists based on disability, with limited exceptions for medically significant conditions determined through individualized physician evaluation.

Covered entities must provide auxiliary aids, services, and reasonable modifications to policies and procedures to ensure qualified individuals with disabilities have access to transplant-related counseling, information, coverage, and treatment unless doing so would fundamentally alter services or create undue burden.

Individuals subjected to transplant discrimination may initiate civil actions to enjoin violations, in addition to other remedies available under Minnesota law.