{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-41-213","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-41-213","heading":"Right of insureds or other beneficiaries to be reimbursed for services performed by physicians or nurse practitioners within lawful scope of their practice.","body":"From and after January 1, 1999, whenever any policy of insurance or any medical service plan or hospital service contract or hospital and medical service contract issued, delivered, administered, continued or renewed in this state provides for reimbursement for any service which is within the lawful scope of practice of a duly certified nurse practitioner as provided for by rules and regulations implemented by the Mississippi Board of Nursing under Section 73-15-5(2), the insured or other person entitled to benefits under such policy shall be entitled to reimbursement for such services, whether such services are performed by a duly licensed physician or by a duly certified nurse practitioner, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any statute or in such policy, plan or contract. Duly certified nurse practitioners shall be entitled to participate in such policies, plans or contracts providing for the services of nurse practitioners, as authorized by the rules and regulations implemented by the Mississippi Board of Nursing under Section 73-15-5(2). Reimbursement shall be based on services rendered by a duly certified nurse practitioner.\nIt is the intent of the Legislature by this section to provide for increased access of health delivery services to the underserved.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 41. Hospital and Medical Service Associations and Contracts","Article 5. Provisions Common to Hospital, Medical, or Surgical Insurance."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.83.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:33Z","sha256":"23477fa00cb6ff2d4b42aa50ff49c1a7f55e7eb6ec056ea7b8feabf833c700f3","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-41-211","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-41-214","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}