34-6-211 - Required execution of durable power of attorney for health care prohibited.

34-6-211. Required execution of durable power of attorney for health care prohibited.

No health care provider, medical service plan, health maintenance organization, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare plan, or nonprofit hospital plan or similar insurance or medical plan may condition admission to a health care institution, or the providing of treatment, or insurance, on the requirement that a patient execute a durable power of attorney for health care.

[Acts 1990, ch. 831, § 11.]