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Dear Representative Simpkins:

You have sent us a thoroughly researched request relating to discrimination against chiropractic care in the payment of health care benefits by providers of health care insurance. You have cited and quoted from R.S. 22:668 and R.S. 40:1299.65, both of which prohibit such discrimination, and have included a copy of Chiropractic Ass'n of La. v. State, thru the Bd. of Trustees of the State Employees Group Benefits Program, 595 So.2d 316 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1991) writ den. 600 So.2d 609 (La. 1992), which held the following to be violations of law:

"[D]iscriminatory…