Tennessee Code Title 56. Insurance § 56-7-2603

(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any insurer providing individual, franchise, blanket or group policy of insurance issued pursuant to this title that provides hospital expense and surgical or medical expense insurance and/or that is entered into, delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state after January 1, 1989, shall offer to provide benefits for expense of residents of this state covered under the policy or plan arising from conditions or disorders of hearing or conditions or disorders of speech, voice, or language, so long as such conditions or disorders receive treatment from duly licensed audiologists or speech pathologists, as defined in § 63-17-103.

(2) This section is applicable to all health benefit policies, programs, or contracts offered by commercial insurance companies, nonprofit insurance companies, prepaid plans, i.e., health maintenance organizations, and to all health benefit programs provided state government employees.