General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 32A Contributory Group General or Blanket Insurance for Persons in the Service of the Commonwealth
- 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. (b) “Employee”, any person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Group insurance commission - Chapter 32A, Section 3
There shall be established within the executive office of administration and finance, but not under its jurisdiction, a special unpaid commission, to be known as...
- 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 - Applicability of chapter to Commonwealth charter schools and education collaboratives - Chapter 32A, Section 3B
This chapter shall become effective for a commonwealth charter school by a majority vote of its board of trustees and, for an education collaborative, by...
- 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; alterations or reductions; 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 dependents; 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 leaves 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
The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for nonprescription enteral...
- 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 - Prosthetic devices and repairs; group insurance commission coverage - Chapter 32A, Section 17I
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2006, 292, Sec. 6.] (a) The commission shall provide coverage for prosthetic devices and repairs to any active...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage for children under age 18 for cleft lip and cleft palate - Chapter 32A, Section 17J
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2012, 234, Sec. 8.] The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage for orally administered anticancer medications - Chapter 32A, Section 17K
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2012, 403, Sec. 6.] Any coverage offered by the commission to an active or retired employee of the...
- 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 January 1 and July 1 of each year, the commission may pay to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who has been...
- 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) applicable as provided by 2008, 256, Sec. 16.] (a) The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who...
- 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund - Chapter 32A, Section 24
[ Subsection (a) effective until July 11, 2013. For text effective July 11, 2013, see below.](a) There shall be established and set up on the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund board of trustees; membership; powers and duties - Chapter 32A, Section 24A
[ Text of section added by 2014, 165, Sec. 72 effective July 1, 2014. See 2014, 165, Sec. 291.] (a) The State Retiree Benefits Trust...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance coverage for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder - Chapter 32A, Section 25
(a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Actuary”, a person who is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wellness program - Chapter 32A, Section 26
The commission shall, subject to appropriation, negotiate with and purchase, on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Toll-free telephone number and website providing customers with estimated or maximum allowed amount or charge for proposed admission, procedure or service - Chapter 32A, Section 27
[Text of section added by 2012, 224, Sec. 36 effective October 1, 2013 until October 1, 2014. See 2012, 224, Sec. 295. For text effective...
Last modified: September 11, 2015