---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300gg–27"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300gg–27"
heading: "Required coverage for reconstructive surgery following mastectomies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300gg-27"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXV — Requirements Relating to Health Insurance Coverage"
  - "Part A — Individual and Group Market Reforms"
  - "Subpart 2 — Exclusion of Plans; Enforcement; Preemption"
---

# §300gg–27. Required coverage for reconstructive surgery following mastectomies


The provisions of [section 1185b of title 29](/usc/29/1185b.md) shall apply to [group health plans](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=1), and and[^1] [health insurance issuers](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=b-2) offering group or [individual health insurance coverage](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=b-5), as if included in this subpart.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, § 2727, formerly § 2706, as added Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title IX, § 903(a)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–438; renumbered § 2727 and amended Pub. L. 111–148, title I, §§ 1001(2), 1563(c)(5), formerly § 1562(c)(5), title X, § 10107(b)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 130, 266, 911.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 300gg–6 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 111–148.

### Amendments

2010—Pub. L. 111–148, § 1563(c)(5), formerly § 1562(c)(5), as renumbered by Pub. L. 111–148, § 10107(b)(1), substituted “and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage” for “health insurance issuers providing health insurance coverage in connection with group health plans”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title IX, § 903(c)(1)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–438, provided that: In general.—The amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall apply to group health plans for plan years beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 21, 1998]. Special rule for collective bargaining agreements.—In the case of a group health plan maintained pursuant to 1 or more collective bargaining agreements between employee representatives and 1 or more employers, any plan amendment made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement relating to the plan which amends the plan solely to conform to any requirement added by the amendment made by subsection (a) shall not be treated as a termination of such collective bargaining agreement.”