Every group or individual policy of accident and sickness insurance issued or renewed after July 1, 1973 regulated by this chapter, and every group or individual service plan or subscriber contract issued or renewed after July 1, 1973 regulated by chapter 62C, providing care or payment for care in this state, shall provide payments for services rendered by a hospital or medical facility owned or operated by, or on behalf of, the state or any unit of local government, or practitioners therein, on the same basis as are made for like care in other facilities. The unit of government concerned may maintain an action for recovery of such payments.
Minn. Stat. § 62A.081
1973 c 765 s 24