Pennsylvania Act 1971-78 — CONCERNING ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE

Act text

AN ACT

Providing for elimination of discriminatory provisions relating to compensation for services and treatment under sickness and accident insurance contracts and providing for nondiscriminatory reimbursement of sickness and bodily injury claims thereunder.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of any policy of insurance, self-insured sickness, health and/or welfare plan providing benefits issued or renewed after the effective date of this act, whenever such policy or plan provides for reimbursement for any service which may be legally performed by a person licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth for the practice of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, chiropractic, podiatry, or physical therapy, reimbursement under such policy or plan shall not be denied when such service is rendered by a person so licensed.

(1 amended June 22, 1978, P.L.493, No.72)

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.