North Dakota § 26.1-36-09.7 Foods and food products for inherited metabolic diseases

North Dakota Statutes

§ 26.1-36-09.7 — Foods and food products for inherited metabolic diseases

North Dakota § 26.1-36-09.7

Title 26.1Insurance

Ch. 26.1-36Accident and Health Insurance

This text of North Dakota § 26.1-36-09.7 (Foods and food products for inherited metabolic diseases) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering North Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

N.D. Cent. Code § 26.1-36-09.7 (2026).

Text

1.As used in this section:

a."Inherited metabolic disease" means maple syrup urine disease or phenylketonuria.

b."Low-protein modified food product" means a food product that is specially formulated to have less than one gram of protein per serving and is intended to be used under the direction of a physician for the dietary treatment of an inherited metabolic disease. The term does not include a natural food that is naturally low in protein.

c."Medical food" means a food that is intended for the dietary treatment of a disease or condition for which nutritional requirements are established by medical evaluation and is formulated to be consumed or administered under the direction of a physician.

2.An insurance company, nonprofit health service corporation, or health maintenance organiz

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

1. As used in this section:
a. "Inherited metabolic disease" means maple syrup urine disease or
phenylketonuria.
b. "Low-protein modified food product" means a food product that is specially
formulated to have less than one gram of protein per serving and is intended to
be used under the direction of a physician for the dietary treatment of an inherited
metabolic disease. The term does not include a natural food that is naturally low
in protein.
c. "Medical food" means a food that is intended for the dietary treatment of a
disease or condition for which nutritional requirements are established by medical
evaluation and is formulated to be consumed or administered under the direction
of a physician.
2. An insurance company, nonprofit health service corporation, or health maintenance
organization may not deliver, issue, execute, or renew any health insurance policy,
health service contract, or evidence of coverage that provides prescription coverage
on an individual, group, blanket, franchise, or association basis, unless the policy or
contract provides, for any person covered under the policy or contract, coverage for
medical foods and low-protein modified food products determined by a physician to be
medically necessary for the therapeutic treatment of an inherited metabolic disease.
3. This section applies to any covered individual born after December 31, 1962. This
section does not require coverage in excess of three thousand dollars per year total for
low-protein modified food products or medical food for an individual with an inherited
metabolic disease of amino acid or organic acid.
4. This section does not require medical benefits coverage for low-protein modified food
products or medical food for an individual to the extent those benefits are available to
that individual under a department of health and human services program.