(a) Neither the execution of a DMOST form under this chapter nor the fact that health care is withheld or withdrawn from a patient in accordance therewith shall, for any purpose, constitute a suicide.
(b) The completion of a DMOST form pursuant to this chapter shall not be deemed or presumed to modify the terms of an existing insurance policy. No policy of insurance shall be legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of health care from an insured patient, notwithstanding any term of the policy to the contrary.
(c) No health-care institution, health-care provider, health-care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, nonprofit hospital service plan, or any other type of direct or indirect provider of health-care benefits or services, shall require any individual to execute a DMOST form as a condition to being insured, to receiving care, or to being admitted to a health-care institution in order to receiving health-care services.
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Chapter 25A. DELAWARE MEDICAL ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT ACT
§ 2502A. Statement of purpose.
§ 2504A. Duty of patient's authorized representative.
§ 2505A. Powers and duties of Department of Health and Social Services.
§ 2506A. Powers and duties of the Department of State.
§ 2507A. Delaware Health Information Network.
§ 2509A. Mandatory elements of DMOST forms.
§ 2510A. Recognition of medical orders from other states.
§ 2511A. Modification or revocation of DMOST forms.
§ 2512A. Resolution of conflicts.
§ 2513A. Conflicting directives.