All individual and group health insurance policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state which provide maternity coverage on an expense-incurred basis, shall also provide, where necessary to protect the life of the infant or mother, coverage for transportation, including air transport, for the medically high-risk pregnant woman with an impending delivery of a potentially viable infant to the nearest available tertiary care facility (as defined in Section 456 [59A-22-34 NMSA 1978] of this article) for newly-born infants.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 457.
ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 46 C.J.S. Insurance §§ 1367, 1518.