Utah

Yes.

For 3-year pilot program for Public Employees’ Health Plan, 2018-2021:

• The patient’s physician verifies that the patient or the patient’s spouse has a demonstrated condition recognized by a physician as a cause of infertility; or
• The patient attests that the patient is unable to conceive a pregnancy or carry a pregnancy to a live birth after a year or more of regular sexual relations without contraception.
• The patient attests that the patient has been unable to attain a successful pregnancy through any less-costly, potentially effective infertility treatments for which coverage is available under the health benefit plan.

For Medicaid patients (if waiver is approved, effective 5/12/20) and Public Employees’ Health Plan, effective July 1, 2020:

• Patient has been diagnosed by a physician as having a genetic trait associated with a qualified condition; and intends to get pregnant with a partner who is diagnosed by a physician as having a genetic trait associated with the same qualified condition as the individual.

Utah Code Ann. §§ 26-18-420(3)(a)-(b), 49-20-420(2)(a)-(b).

Applies to the Public Employees’ Health Plan (effective 7/1/2020) and the Medicaid program (if waiver is approved; effective 5/12/2021). Utah Code Ann. §§ 26-18-420(3)(a)-(b), 49-20-420(2)(a)-(b).

 

To qualify for coverage:

• The individual must be enrolled in the Medicaid program; and
• The individual must has been diagnosed by a physician as having a genetic trait associated with cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, Morquio Syndrome, myotonic dystrophy, or sickle cell anemia; and
• The individual intends to get pregnant with a partner who is diagnosed by a physician as having a genetic trait associated with the same condition as the individual.

Utah Code Ann. §§ 26-18-420(1)(a)-(b), 49-20-420(1)(a)-(b).

 

Yes, through the Medicaid program (if waiver is approved)

Effective 5/5/2021.

The Medicaid program (if waiver is approved) must provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services to individuals who: (i) are enrolled in the Medicaid program; (ii) have been diagnosed with a form of cancer by a physician; and (iii) need treatment for that cancer that may cause a substantial risk of sterility or iatrogenic infertility. Utah Code Ann. §§ 26-18-420.1(1)(c), 26-18-420.1(3).

“Standard fertility preservation service” means a fertility preservation procedure that is not considered experimental or investigational and is consistent with established medical practices or professional guidelines. This includes sperm banking, oocyte banking, embryo banking, banking of reproductive tissues, and storage of reproductive cells and tissues. Id. § 26-18-420.1(1)(d).

“Iatrogenic infertility” means an impairment of fertility or reproductive functioning caused by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or other medical treatment. Id. § 26-18-420.1(1)(a).

The Public Employees’ Health Plan offers a pilot program within the state risk pool that must provide covered individuals who are eligible for maternity benefits under the program with a benefit of $4,000 toward the costs of each qualified assisted reproductive technology cycle. Id. §§ 49-20-418(2)(a), 49-20-418(2)(b)(ii).

“Qualified assisted reproductive technology cycle” means the use of assisted reproductive technology to transfer a single embryo for implantation. “Assisted reproductive technology” means all treatments or procedures which include the handling of human oocytes or embryos, including in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian transfer, zygote intrafallopian transfer. Id. § 49-20-418(1)(d); 42 U.S.C. § 263a-7.

The pilot program will end plan year 2023-24. Utah Code Ann. § 49-20-418(2)(a).

The purpose of the pilot program is to study the efficacy of providing coverage for the use of an assisted reproductive technology and is not a mandate for coverage of an assisted reproductive technology within all health plans offered by the program. Id. § 49-20-418(5)(a).