All individual and group subscriber contracts delivered or issued for delivery in New Mexico by a nonprofit health care plan that, on a service or indemnity basis, or both, provide for treatment of persons for the prevention, cure or correction of any illness or physical or mental condition shall not contain any provisions that exclude a licensed doctor of oriental medicine as a provider of oriental medical services and shall not discriminate in the reimbursement levels for such services between types of licensed health care providers.
History: 1978 Comp., § 59A-47-28.2, enacted by Laws 1991, ch. 145, § 1; 1993, ch. 158, § 6.
Cross references. — For prohibition against discrimination against acupuncture practitioner, see 59A-46-36 NMSA 1978.
For Acupuncture Practice Act, see Chapter 61, Article 14A NMSA 1978.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "Doctor of Oriental Medicine" for "Oriental Medical Doctor" in the section heading and substituted "licensed doctor of oriental medicine" for "licensed oriental medical doctor" near the end of the section.
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