26-20-701. Required parity for mental health and substance use disorder insurance.
All individual or group health insurance policies providing coverage on an expense incurred basis, individual and group service or indemnity type health insurance contracts issued by any insurer, including any nonprofit corporation and individual and group service contracts issued by a health maintenance organization, shall meet the requirements of, and the commissioner may enforce subject to the provisions of this section, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-26, as amended, and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto as of January 1, 2018. Persons exempt from complying with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act shall not be exempted from complying with the requirements of this section if this section otherwise applies to the person. The commissioner may promulgate reasonable rules which establish exemptions from the application of this section.