Open enrollment.
1. After a health maintenance organization has been in operation 24 months, it shall have an annual open enrollment commensurate with common practices in the area in which it operates.
2. Health maintenance organizations providing services to a specified group or groups may limit the open enrollment to all members of such group or groups. “Specified groups” may include:
(a) Employees of one or more specified employers;
(b) Members of one or more specified employee organizations;
(c) Members of one or more specified associations; and
(d) Participants in one or more specified group policies issued by one or more specified insurers if the insurer is involved in the operation, management or conduct of the health maintenance organization.
Last modified: February 27, 2006