---
title: O.C.G.A. § 33-46-24. Medically necessary unanticipated emergency or urgent healthcare services.
collection: code
id: 33-46-24
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 33-46-24 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/33-46-24
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/33-46-24.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/33-46-24/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t33-ch23-66-(v25)-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=e52ed458_0#page=154
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/33-46.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/33-46-23.1.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/33-46-25.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: INSURANCE / CERTIFICATION OF PRIVATE REVIEW AGENTS / PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 33-46-24. Medically necessary unanticipated emergency or urgent healthcare services.

Prior authorization shall not be required for unanticipated emergency healthcare services, urgent healthcare services, or covered healthcare services which are incidental to the primary covered healthcare service and determined by the covered person’s physician or dentist to be medically necessary.

## History

Code 1981, § 33-46-24, enacted by Ga. L. 2021, p. 629, § 2/SB 80.