Georgia Code, Title 33, Chapter 19 - Nonprofit Hospital Service Corporations

• § 33-19-1 - Authorization and Procedure for Incorporation
  Any five or more persons upon petition to the Secretary of State for a corporate charter, as provided in subsection (a) and paragraphs (1),...
• § 33-19-2 - Management of Corporations Generally; Payment of Expenses of Administration
  The corporation shall be governed and conducted as nonprofit organizations for the purpose of offering and furnishing hospital service to their members in consideration...
• § 33-19-3 - Directors
  Not more than 50 percent of the directors of any corporation may be directors, superintendents, trustees, or employees of participating hospitals, as defined by...
• § 33-19-4 - Bond and Deposit Requirement Generally
  Corporations incorporated pursuant to Code Section 33-19-1 shall be governed by this chapter. The corporations shall not be required by any department of this...
• § 33-19-5 - Bond of Treasurer or Other Officer or Employee Handling Funds; Deposit of Funds Collected From Members
  (a) The treasurer of the corporation and other officers and employees who handle its funds shall be required to give a fidelity bond with...
• § 33-19-6 - Acceptance of Applications for Membership
  The corporations when organized shall be authorized to accept applicants who may become members of the corporations furnishing group hospital service under a contract...
• § 33-19-7 - Issuance and Contents of Membership Certificates
  Every corporation shall issue to its members certificates of membership which shall set forth the contract between the corporation and the member, give the...
• § 33-19-8 - Corporation As Agent for Surgical or Medical Service Plans
  In order to implement the distribution of voluntary health care to the people of this state, the corporations may, at their discretion, act as...
• § 33-19-9 - Power of Corporations to Contract With Hospitals for Provision of Services Generally
  The corporation shall have the authority to contract with hospitals charging for services rendered in such manner as to assure to each person holding...
• § 33-19-10 - Limitation As to Hospitals With Which Corporations Authorized to Contract
  The corporations shall have authority to contract only with hospitals licensed by the Department of Community Health.
• § 33-19-11 - Provisions in Contracts As to Receipt by Members of Services From Nonparticipating Hospitals; Extension of Service
  All membership contracts issued by the corporations shall contain a provision, to be first approved by the Commissioner, which shall permit the person with...
• § 33-19-12 - Authorization of Contracts for Provision of System of Comprehensive Health Care
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a corporation created pursuant to this chapter may contract with persons, firms, corporations, and governmental agencies otherwise...
• § 33-19-13 - Restriction by Corporations of Right of Members to Select Physicians; Acceptance of Members and Personal Physicians by Hospitals Contracting With Corporations
  The corporations shall not control or attempt to control the relationship existing between a member and his physician and shall not restrict the right...
• § 33-19-14 - Submission to Commissioner of Operating Plan, Schedule of Rates, and Amount of Service; Approval by Commissioner
  The corporations shall, before accepting applications for membership in a nonprofit hospital service plan, submit to the Commissioner a plan of operation and overhead...
• § 33-19-15 - Approval by Commissioner of Rates to Be Paid Hospitals Providing Services; Guarantee of Benefits of Certificates of Membership by Hospitals
  The Commissioner shall likewise first approve the rates of payment to be made by the corporations to hospitals for the rendering of hospital care...
• § 33-19-16 - When Funds Collected From Members to Be Paid to Hospitals Rendering Care
  The corporations shall not pay any of the funds collected from members to any hospital until after said hospital shall have rendered hospital care...
• § 33-19-17 - Investments of Funds of Corporations
  The funds of any corporations subject to this chapter shall be invested only in securities in which assets of life insurance companies may be...
• § 33-19-18 - Maintenance of Books and Records Showing Funds Collected and Disbursed; Examination of Books and Records by Commissioner
  Every corporation shall keep complete books and records showing all funds collected and disbursed. All books and records shall be subject to annual examination...
• § 33-19-19 - Filing of Annual Statement With Commissioner
  On or before March 1, every corporation shall annually file in the office of the Commissioner a statement verified by at least two of...
• § 33-19-20 - Exemption From Taxation of Corporations
  Every corporation subject to this chapter is declared to be a charitable and benevolent institution and shall be exempt from all taxes from which...
• § 33-19-21 - Procedure for Dissolution or Liquidation of Corporations Generally; Priority of Claims to Funds of Corporations; Disposition of Funds Remaining After Satisfaction of Claims
  Any dissolution or liquidation of any corporation subject to this chapter shall be under the supervision of the Commissioner. In case of dissolution of...
• § 33-19-22 - Payment of Expenses of Supervision, Examination, or Liquidation
  Any and all supervision, liquidation, or examination of the affairs of any corporation by the Commissioner shall be at the expense of the corporation.

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