Wyoming Statutes Title 26. Insurance Code § 26-20-702. Reimbursement for mental health and substance use disorder benefits

(a) As used in this section “mental health and substance use disorder benefits” means benefits for the treatment of any condition or disorder that involves a mental health condition or substance use disorder that falls under any of the diagnostic categories listed in the mental disorders section of the most recent edition of the International Classification of Disease or that is listed in the mental disorders section of the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

(b) All individual or group health insurance policies providing coverage on an expense incurred basis, individual and group service or indemnity type health insurance contracts issued by any insurer, including any nonprofit corporation and individual and group service contracts issued by a health maintenance organization and individual and group service contracts that provide mental health and substance use disorder benefits shall provide reimbursement for benefits that are delivered through the psychiatric Collaborative Care Model as defined by the American Medical Association's most recent procedural terminology codes and where a licensed and credentialed primary care team consists of a primary care provider, a care manager and a psychiatric consultant.

(c) The benefit and reimbursement requirements of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to any policy, contract or service that would require the state to defray the cost as specified in 42 U.S.C. 18031(d)(3)(B)(ii).

(d) Nothing in this section shall restrict the health insurer's ability to apply appropriate medical management for the services rendered.