{"data":{"id":"us-pa/20-pa.c.s.-5428","jurisdiction":"us-pa","citation":"20 Pa.C.S. § 5428","heading":"Health care instruments optional.","body":"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:\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES","CHAPTER 54 HEALTH CARE","SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM\u0026ttl=20\u0026div=0\u0026chpt=54\u0026sctn=28\u0026subsctn=0","current_through":"2026-03-18 (Statute Update stamp, 20 Pa.C.S.)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T16:31:33Z","sha256":"bf24975f699815c1c15d1fead73a5034c92aaaab02553ddcb92ce80db5d7ee95","source_id":"us-pa","stale":false,"prev":"us-pa/20-pa.c.s.-5427","next":"us-pa/20-pa.c.s.-5429"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}