Introduced By: Representatives Picard and Henseler
Date Introduced : February 3, 1998
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 27-41 of the General Laws entitled "Health Maintenance Organizations" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:
{ADD 27-41-54. Disassociation prohibited. -- ADD} {ADD Notwithstanding any provision of the general or public laws to the contrary, no individual or group health insurance contract, plan, or policy delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state on or after the effective date of this section, which provides medical coverage for physician services in a physician's office and no policy which provides major medical or similar comprehensive-type coverage for specified diseases or other supplemental polices shall prohibit a medical provider from ceasing an association with and participation in one Health Maintenance Organization and associating and participating with another Health Maintenance Organization doing business in this state. ADD}
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
