Section 26.1-36-09.7 - Foods and food products for inherited metabolic diseases1. 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.Amended by S.L. 2021, ch. 352 (HB 1247),§ 316, eff. 9/1/2022.