20 Pa.C.S. § 5428: Health care instruments optional.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
- CHAPTER 54 HEALTH CARE
- SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
A health care provider, a health care service plan, a health maintenance organization, an insurer issuing disability insurance, a self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, a nonprofit hospital plan and a Federal, State or local government sponsored or operated program may not:
(1) Require an individual to execute an advance health care directive or order or to designate or disqualify a health care representative as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services.
(2) Charge an individual a different rate or fee whether or not the individual executes or has executed an advance health care directive or order or designated or disqualified a health care representative.
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