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PRINTER'S NO. 226
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 272
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLETTI, PENNYCUICK, HAYWOOD, COLLETT,
PISCIOTTANO, COSTA, TARTAGLIONE, SANTARSIERO AND KANE,
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An
act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and
consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of
insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and
protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds
associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and
fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and
supervision of insurance carried by such companies,
associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by
the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and
repealing existing laws," in casualty insurance, providing
for infertility care coverage.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known
as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 635.11. Infertility Care Coverage.--(a) A health
insurance policy covered under this section shall include
coverage for infertility care and shall waive cost-sharing
requirements related to infertility care.
(b) Infertility care coverage under this section shall be
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provided to covered individuals, including covered spouses and
covered nonspouse dependents. Infertility care coverage under
this section shall be provided without discrimination on the
basis of age, ancestry, color, disability, domestic partner
status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic
information, marital status, national origin, race, religion,
sex or sexual orientation. Nothing in this subsection shall be
construed to interfere with the clinical judgment of a
physician.
(c) Infertility care coverage under this section shall be
for the consultation, diagnosis and treatment of infertility,
including the following:
(1) Intrauterine insemination.
(2) Cryopreservation and thawing of eggs, sperm and embryos.
(3) Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue.
(4) Cryopreservation of testicular tissue.
(5) Embryo biopsy.
(6) Diagnostic testing.
(7) Fresh and frozen embryo transfers.
(8) Egg retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers in
accordance with the guidelines of the American Society for
Reproductive Medicine, including the use of single embryo
transfers when recommended and medically appropriate.
(9) In vitro fertilization, including in vitro fertilization
through the use of donor eggs, sperm or embryos and in vitro
fertilization that involves the transfer of embryos to a
gestational carrier or surrogate.
(10) Assisted hatching.
(11) Intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
(12) Infertility medications.
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(13) Ovulation induction.
(14) Storage of oocytes, sperm, embryos and tissue.
(15) Surgery to address disorders of the female reproductive
tract that impair fertility and to address disorders of sperm
production or anatomic disorders of the male reproductive tract
that impair fertility.
(16) Medical and laboratory services that reduce excess
embryo creation through egg cryopreservation and thawing.
(17) Surrogacy, including the costs associated with the
preparation for reception or introduction of embryos, oocytes or
donor sperm into a surrogate or gestational carrier.
(18) Gamete intrafallopian transfers.
(19) Therapeutic devices.
(20) Standard fertility preservation services for an
individual who has a medical condition and is expected to
undergo medication therapy, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or
other medical treatment that is recognized by a medical
professional to cause a risk of impairment to fertility.
(21) Any nonexperimental procedure for infertility
recognized by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine,
the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or the
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology or by an
infertility expert identified by the Department of Health.
(22) Any other services, procedures, medications or devices
related to the consultation, diagnosis and treatment of
infertility.
(d) A health insurance policy covered under this section may
not:
(1) contain preexisting condition exclusions or preexisting
condition waiting periods to access the infertility care
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coverage required under this section;
(2) use the prior diagnosis of infertility or prior
treatment for infertility as a basis for excluding, limiting or
otherwise restricting the availability of infertility care
coverage required under this section; or
(3) contain limitations on coverage for infertility benefits
based solely