Every health insurer subject to this section shall maintain an adequate network that includes qualified autism service providers who supervise or employ qualified autism service professionals or paraprofessionals who provide and administer behavioral health treatment. A health insurer is not prevented from selectively contracting with providers within these requirements.

For an insured diagnosed with cancer and accepted into a phase I, phase II, phase III, or phase IV clinical trial for cancer, every policy of disability insurance that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage in this state shall provide coverage for all routine patient care costs related to the clinical trial if the insured’s treating physician, who is providing covered health care services to the insured under the insured’s health benefit plan contract, recommends participation in the clinical trial after determining that participation in the clinical trial has a meaningful potential to benefit the insured. In the case of health care services provided by a contracting provider, the payment rate shall be at the agreed-upon rate. In the case of a noncontracting provider, the payment shall be at the negotiated rate the insurer would otherwise pay to a contracting provider for the same services, less applicable copayments and deductibles. Copayments and deductibles applied to services delivered in a clinical trial shall be the same as those applied to the same services if not delivered in a clinical trial. This section shall not apply to vision-only, dental-only, accident-only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, CHAMPUS supplement, long-term care, or disability income insurance, except that for specified disease and hospital indemnity insurance, coverage for benefits under this section shall apply, but only to the extent that the benefits are covered under the general terms and conditions that apply to all other benefits under the policy.