Any insurer issuing a group insurance policy in accordance with chapter 27 of Title 17B of the New Jersey Statutes which provides coverage of surgical operations performed on a person while confined in a hospital as an inpatient shall make available, and if requested by the group policyholder, provide a second surgical opinion program for elective surgical procedures which would require inpatient admission to a hospital for persons insured under the group policy for such surgical coverage.
N.J.S. § 17B:27-46.3