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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 32A Contributory Group General or Blanket Insurance for Persons in the Service of the Commonwealth.
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Purpose of chapter - Chapter 32A, Section 1
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a program of group life insurance, group accidental death and dismemberment insurance for certain persons in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 32A, Section 2
The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:-- (a) "Commission'', the group insurance commission.[ Subsection (b) effective until June...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Group insurance commission - Chapter 32A, Section 3
[ Text of section effective until July 25, 2007. For text effective July 25, 2007, see below.]There shall be established within the executive office of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees' advisory committee - Chapter 32A, Section 3A
There shall be within the group insurance commission, but not under its direction or control, an unpaid advisory committee to be known as the employees’...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of insurance policies by commission - Chapter 32A, Section 4
The commission shall negotiate with and purchase, on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth and its employees,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative services contracts - Chapter 32A, Section 4A
The commission when providing hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health insurance coverage as authorized by this chapter may, in lieu of or in addition...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance and medicare benefits of state employees - Chapter 32A, Section 5
Each employee shall be automatically insured for five thousand dollars of group life insurance and five thousand dollars of group accidental death and dismemberment insurance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amounts of insurance and benefits; determination; separability - Chapter 32A, Section 6
The amount of group life insurance on each employee shall be five thousand dollars, and the amount of group accidental death and dismemberment insurance on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Information furnished commission by employees - Chapter 32A, Section 7
Each employee to whom this chapter applies shall furnish the commission, in such form as it shall prescribe, such information as is necessary to enroll...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions for premiums by commonwealth and active or retired employees and departments; ratio; withholding; direct payment; reimbursement by certain agencies; filing copies of contracts and agreements - Chapter 32A, Section 8
For policies of group life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and group health insurance purchased by the commission in accordance with the provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees on leave of absence for more than one year; insurance costs charged to employing agency - Chapter 32A, Section 8A
The secretary of administration and finance is hereby authorized and directed to charge all agencies for the commonwealth’s share of the health insurance costs incurred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dividends, refunds, rate credits; deposit in special funds; transfer of reserves - Chapter 32A, Section 9
Any dividend, its equivalent or other refunds or rate credits, accepted by the commission from the carrier or carriers, shall be deposited by the commission...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investment committee; investment and deposit of funds by state treasurer - Chapter 32A, Section 9A
There shall be an unpaid investment committee which shall have general supervision of the investment of funds retained in the group insurance commission trust fund...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement or termination of employment; effect on policy; conversion of insurance - Chapter 32A, Section 10
The commission shall require that, upon retirement of an employee, the policy or policies of insurance as set forth in section six, except the optional...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional insurance - Chapter 32A, Section 10A
Each employee insured for the minimum amounts of group life and group accidental death and dismemberment insurance provided in section six may, subject to such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance for elderly government retirees and their dependents - Chapter 32A, Section 10B
The commission shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth, certain political subdivisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Optional Medicare extension - Chapter 32A, Section 10C
The commission shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth, certain political subdivisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disability insurance; withholding payment of premiums - Chapter 32A, Section 10D
The commission shall establish a plan of disability insurance on such terms and conditions as it deems to be in the best interest of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance for commonwealth employee granted leave to care for dependent child - Chapter 32A, Section 10E
The health and insurance benefits including, without limitation, policies of group life insurance group accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and the group general or blanket...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of employee or retired employee; continuation of insurance by spouse or dependent - Chapter 32A, Section 11
Upon the death of an employee or retired employee insured under this chapter, the surviving spouse, or the surviving dependent if there is no surviving...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Divorced or separated spouses; continuation of insurance coverage - Chapter 32A, Section 11A
(a) In the event of the granting of a judgment absolute of divorce or of separate support to which an employee or retiree who has...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Retired teachers; life and health insurance; agreements; contributions; withholding of premiums; reimbursement of premiums and expenses; dividends; rules and regulations - Chapter 32A, Section 12
The commission shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interests of the commonwealth, the political subdivisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of applications by political subdivisions for life and health insurance covering retired teachers - Chapter 32A, Section 13
Upon receipt of application from a political subdivision of the commonwealth having accepted the provisions of section eleven E of chapter thirty-two B, the commission...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Optional insurance for services of health care organizations - Chapter 32A, Section 14
The commission may enter into a contract, hereinafter described, to make available the services of a health care organization to certain eligible active and retired...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Catastrophic illness coverage; contracts; premiums; dividends; conversion; rules and regulations - Chapter 32A, Section 15
The commission may negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth and its active...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Election to continue insurance coverages; notice - Chapter 32A, Section 16
(a) An employee, in addition to the right of a deferred retiree status, or, conversion of insurance coverages to a non-group policy as provided in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dental and vision expenses; reimbursement of employees - Chapter 32A, Section 17
The commission shall, subject to appropriation, establish a plan of benefits for certain employees which shall, subject to the procedures and conditions established by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage for nonprescription enteral formulas for home use - Chapter 32A, Section 17A
[ Text of section effective until October 28, 2008. For text effective October 28, 2008, see below.]The commission shall provide to any active or retired...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hospice services for commonwealth employees insured under group insurance commission - Chapter 32A, Section 17B
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth, who is insured under the group insurance commission, coverage for licensed hospice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Required coverage for prenatal care, childbirth and postpartum, care - Chapter 32A, Section 17C
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for prenatal care,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage for bone marrow transplants - Chapter 32A, Section 17D
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for a bone...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Scalp hair prostheses necessary due to cancer or leukemia treatment - Chapter 32A, Section 17E
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Prosthesis”, an artificial appliance used to replace a lost natural...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Newborn hearing screening test; group insurance commission coverage - Chapter 32A, Section 17F
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for the cost...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Items medically necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of diabetes; group insurance commission coverage - Chapter 32A, Section 17G
The commission shall provide to an active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for the following...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage for human leukocyte or histocompatibility locus antigen testing - Chapter 32A, Section 17H
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for the cost...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Medicare health benefits supplement plan, mandatory transfer; payment of penalty - Chapter 32A, Section 18
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, all retirees, their spouses and dependents insured or eligible to be insured under sections five, ten B and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release from insurance coverage; payment; reinstatement of coverage - Chapter 32A, Section 19
Effective July 1 of each year, the commission may pay to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who has been continuously insured by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Charges or collections of excess compensation - Chapter 32A, Section 20
No physician or other provider of services, who treats or provides services to an individual covered by hospital, surgical, medical or catastrophic illness coverage offered...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Health care services evaluation; vendor quality improvement program; annual report - Chapter 32A, Section 21
The commission is hereby authorized and directed to establish and implement a vendor quality improvement program for purposes including, but not limited to: the evaluation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Diagnosis and treatment of certain biologically-based mental disorders; mental disorders of victims of rape; non-biologically-based mental disorders of children and adolescents under age 19; group insurance commission coverage - Chapter 32A, Section 22
[ Subsection (a) effective until July 1, 2009. For text effective July 1, 2009, see below.](a) The commission shall provide to any active or retired...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage for speech, hearing and language disorders - Chapter 32A, Section 23
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the commission coverage for expenses incurred in the...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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