26-22-104. Reimbursement for health care; includes health care by psychologists.
Notwithstanding any provisions in policies or contracts or certificates issued as evidence thereof which might be construed to the contrary, from and after July 1, 1985, all individual and group or blanket policies of accident and sickness insurance or individual or group service or indemnity contracts issued by a corporation including corporations which provide health care to its employees as a benefit of employment which are issued, delivered, issued for delivery, amended or renewed in this state or which cover any risk resident, located or to be performed in this state and which provide coverage for diagnostic and therapeutic services which are within the lawful scope of practice of a psychologist duly licensed to practice, shall be deemed to provide that any person covered under the policies or contracts is entitled to receive reimbursement for the services under the policies or contracts if they are rendered by a duly licensed doctor of medicine or a duly licensed psychologist.