Any insurer issuing a group insurance policy in accordance with chapter 27 of Title 17B of the New Jersey Statutes which provides coverage of surgical operations performed on a person while confined in a hospital as an inpatient shall make available, and if requested by the group policyholder, provide a second surgical opinion program for elective surgical procedures which would require inpatient admission to a hospital for persons insured under the group policy for such surgical coverage.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 17B:27-46.3
Group insurance policies; provision of program on request
Known as the New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act
The act spans §§ 17B:17-1 to 17B:37-9 (1,003 sections).
L.1979, c. 329, s. 2.
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