• § 20-2-910 - Definitions
  As used in this subpart, the term: (1) "Board" means the Board of Community Health established under Chapter 2 of Title 31. (2) "Commissioner"...
• § 20-2-911 - Board to Establish Plan; Rules and Regulations; Extent of Coverage; Recommendations to General Assembly for Schedule of Maximum Fees for Hospitals and Practitioners
  (a) The board is authorized to establish a health insurance plan for public school employees of this state and to adopt and promulgate rules...
• § 20-2-912 - Exclusions From Coverage
  Such health insurance plan shall not include expenses incurred by, or on account of, an individual prior to the effective date of the plan...
• § 20-2-913 - Design of Plan; Controls on Unnecessary Use of Services
  The health insurance plan shall be designed by the board to: (1) Provide a reasonable relationship between the hospital, surgical, and medical benefits to...
• § 20-2-914 - Contracts for Benefits or Self-Insurance Authorized; Reinsurance; Certificates of Coverage
  (a) The board is authorized to execute a contract or contracts to provide the benefits determined upon under the health insurance plan in accordance...
• § 20-2-915 - Coverage for Retiring and Retired Public School and Certain Community College Employees and Dependents; Subordination to Federal Program
  (a) The contract or contracts shall provide for health insurance for retiring public school employees and their spouses and dependent children, as defined by...
• § 20-2-915.1 - Coverage for Employees With Eight or More Years of Creditable Service; Premiums
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subpart to the contrary, the board shall offer continuous coverage to any public school employee with eight...
• § 20-2-915.2 - Coverage of Dependents After Death of Employee
  At the time of death of any employee, annuitant, or other person who has elected coverage under said contract or contracts for health insurance...
• § 20-2-916 - Coverage for Dependents; Agreement to Pay Contributions
  Each employee shall be entitled to have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the board, included in the coverage,...
• § 20-2-917 - Payment of Benefits
  (a) Any benefits payable under the health insurance plan may be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals, medical groups, or others furnishing...
• § 20-2-918 - Health Insurance Fund for Public School Employees
  (a) There is created a health insurance fund for public school employees. The fund shall be available without fiscal year limitations for premiums, subscription...
• § 20-2-919 - Investment of Health Insurance Fund
  Any amounts held by the health insurance fund which are available for investment shall be paid over to the Office of the State Treasurer....
• § 20-2-920 - Withholding or Deducting Employees' Contributions; State Contributions; Enrollment of Employees of School System Not Participating in the Plan
  (a) During any period in which an employee is covered under the health insurance plan authorized by this subpart prior to the date of...
• § 20-2-921 - Providing for Funds Required Annually for Employer Contributions
  At an appropriate time during each year, the commissioner shall certify to the State School Superintendent the amount of funds determined by the board...
• § 20-2-922 - Employer and Employee Commencement Dates; Option to Reject or Elect Coverage
  (a) On a date as soon as practicable, as determined by the board, which is defined as the "employer commencement date," the commissioner shall...
• § 20-2-923 - Option of Local Boards As to Coverage
  Local school boards shall have the option to determine whether or not the public school employees within their respective systems shall be covered under...
• § 20-2-924 - Administrative Discharge of Certain Debts
  (a) It is the purpose of this Code section to authorize a procedure whereby the commissioner of community health may administratively discharge a debt...
• § 20-2-925 - Confidentiality of Claim Forms and Records
  Claim forms and other records which would disclose the nature of the health services provided to an insured shall be maintained on a confidential...
• § 20-2-926 - Deposit of Contributions Into Georgia Retiree Health Benefit Fund
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subpart, the board shall deposit into the Georgia Retiree Health Benefit Fund created by Code Section 45-18-101 the...

Last modified: October 14, 2016