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A1844 • 2026

Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.

Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.

Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Myhre, Gregory E.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.

Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.
  • Topic: Financial Institutions and Insurance Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or surgical procedures.
Topic:
Financial Institutions and Insurance
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1844

ASSEMBLY, No. 1844

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman GREGORY E. MYHRE

District 9 (Ocean)

Assemblyman BRIAN E. RUMPF

District 9 (Ocean)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Inganamort, Sauickie, Assemblywoman Fantasia,
Assemblymen Kanitra, Clifton, Scharfenberger and Auth

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits health insurance carriers from placing time
limit on coverage of anesthesia services before, during, or after medical or
surgical procedures.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

An Act

concerning health insurance coverage for
anesthesia and supplementing P.L.1997, c.192 (26:2S-1 et seq.).

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.� A carrier shall not
limit coverage based on the amount of time in which anesthesia services are
used before, during, or after a medical or surgical procedure.

���� b.��� As used in this section:

���� �Anesthesia services� means
the same as the prevailing medical coding standards found within the American
Medical Association�s Current Procedural Terminology code for anesthesia,
including anesthesia modifier codes.

���� �Carrier� means an insurance
company, health service corporation, hospital service corporation, medical
service corporation, or health maintenance organization authorized to issue
health benefits plans in this State.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the 90th day next following enactment and shall apply to policies and
contracts delivered, issued, executed, or renewed on or after that date.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits health
insurance carriers from placing a time limit on the coverage of anesthesia
services before, during, or after a medical or surgical procedure.

���� Under the bill, a carrier
(including an insurance company, health service corporation, hospital service
corporation, medical service corporation, or health maintenance organization
authorized to issue health benefits plans in the State) will be prohibited from
limiting coverage based on the amount of time in which anesthesia services are
used before, during, or after a medical or surgical procedure.

���� For the purpose of this bill,
�anesthesia services� means the same as the prevailing medical coding standards
found within the American Medical Association�s Current Procedural Terminology
code for anesthesia, including anesthesia modifier codes.