17B:26-2.4 - Benefit payments - New Jersey Statutes

17B:26-2.4.  Benefit payments
    Benefits for a second surgical opinion shall include payment for the second  surgical opinion services of an eligible physician and for essential laboratory  and X-ray services incidental thereto, either as a benefit under the individual  policy or, at the insurer's option, as an additional benefit offered to the  prospective policyholder at issue of a policy.  Benefit payments may be limited  to second surgical opinion services of eligible physicians who have agreed to  participate in an insurer's second surgical opinion program.  The benefits  shall be reasonably related to amounts payable under the policy for covered  surgical procedures.

     L.1979, c. 328, s. 3.