Georgia Code, Title 33, Chapter 20 - Health Care Plans
- § 33-20-1 - Short Title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Health Care Plan Act."
- § 33-20-2 - Purpose and Construction of Chapter
It is the purpose and intent of this chapter and the policy of this state to promote and finance quality health care services of...
- § 33-20-3 - Definitions
As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Beneficiary" or "covered dependent" means a person designated in the subscription certificate or application therefor of...
- § 33-20-4 - Authorization of Formation of Health Care Corporations Generally
Health care corporations may be incorporated for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating one or more health care plans, providing administrative or other...
- § 33-20-5 - Procedure for Formation of Health Care Corporations; Regulation and Supervision of Corporations by Commissioner Generally
(a) Any five or more persons, all of whom shall be residents of this state, upon filing a petition with the Secretary of State...
- § 33-20-6 - Board of Directors; Merger or Consolidation of Medical Service Corporations and Hospital Service Corporations; Powers of Health Care Corporations Generally
(a) The board of directors of each health care corporation shall consist of one or more individuals, with the number specified in or fixed...
- § 33-20-7 - Bond of Treasurer; Deposit of Funds Collected From Subscribers
The treasurer of a health care corporation shall be required to give a fidelity bond with corporate surety in such sum as may be...
- § 33-20-8 - Certificate of Authority -- Requirement; Application
(a) Except for corporations subject to this chapter which are surviving corporations, a health care corporation may issue contracts only after the Commissioner has...
- § 33-20-9 - Certificate of Authority -- Issuance
(a) The Commissioner shall be authorized to issue a certificate of authority in accordance with this chapter and other proper requirements of the Commissioner...
- § 33-20-10 - Certificate of Authority -- Expiration, Renewal, and Amendment
(a) All certificates of authority shall expire at 12:00 Midnight on June 30 following the date of issuance or renewal. A health care corporation...
- § 33-20-11 - Certificate of Authority -- Refusal, Revocation, or Suspension Generally
The Commissioner may refuse to issue, or after a hearing refuse to renew, or revoke or suspend a health care corporation's certificate of authority...
- § 33-20-12 - Certificate of Authority -- Mandatory Refusal, Revocation, or Suspension
The Commissioner shall refuse to issue or to renew or shall revoke or suspend a health care corporation's certificate of authority: (1) If such...
- § 33-20-13 - Management of Corporations; General Powers; Requirements As to Reserves, Minimum Subscriber's Surpluses, and Charges
(a) Health care corporations shall be governed and conducted as corporations and the necessary expenses of administering the affairs of the corporations may be...
- § 33-20-14 - Acceptance of Applications
When organized, health care corporations shall be authorized to accept applicants individually or in groups who may become subscribers of the corporation furnishing health...
- § 33-20-15 - Issuance and Contents of Membership Certificates
(a) Every health care corporation shall issue to its subscribers a membership certificate which shall describe the health care plan under which the subscriber...
- § 33-20-16 - Right to Become Participating Physician or Approved Health Care Provider
Every doctor of medicine, every doctor of dental surgery, every podiatrist, and every health care provider within a class approved by the health care...
- § 33-20-17 - Powers of Corporations to Contract for Provision of Health Care Services; Receipt of Payments
(a) Any health care corporation organized or operated under this chapter and engaged in the operation of a health care plan may contract with...
- § 33-20-18 - Sale of Contracts Providing for Payment of Specified Charges Made by Participating Physicians; Right of Subscribers to Select Physicians; Liability of Corporations for Negligence of Physicians
(a) Health care corporations shall have the right to sell contracts providing for the payment of specified charges made by participating physicians furnishing medical...
- § 33-20-19 - Regulation and Supervision of Corporations by Commissioner Generally; Payment of Fees and Taxes by Corporations Generally
Health care corporations shall be subject to regulation and supervision by the Commissioner and shall be required to pay any fees and taxes, including...
- § 33-20-20 - Submission to Commissioner of Operating Plan, Schedule of Rates, and Amount of Service; Approval by Commissioner
Except for corporations subject to this chapter which are surviving corporations, health care corporations shall before accepting applications from subscribers in a nonprofit health...
- § 33-20-21 - Approval of Commissioner of Rates to Be Paid to Providers of Services
Except for corporations subject to this chapter which are surviving corporations, the Commissioner shall first approve the rates of payment to be made by...
- § 33-20-22 - Investment of Funds of Corporations
Health care corporations shall invest in or lend their funds on security of and shall hold as invested assets only such assets as are...
- § 33-20-23 - Maintenance of Books and Records Showing Funds Collected and Disbursed; Examination of Books and Records by Commissioner
Every health care corporation shall keep complete books and records in accordance with the requirements of the Commissioner showing all funds collected and disbursed....
- § 33-20-24 - Filing of Reports With Commissioner
Every health care corporation shall on or before March 1 in each year after it shall have commenced to do business pursuant to a...
- § 33-20-25 - Liability for Expenses of Commissioner's Supervisory and Other Activities
Any and all supervision, conservation, rehabilitation, liquidation, or examination of the affairs of any corporation by the Commissioner shall be at the expense of...
- § 33-20-26 - Powers of Commissioner As to Protection of Subscribers and Public Health and Welfare
The Commissioner shall have the authority to take appropriate actions authorized by this title for the protection of a health care corporation's subscribers and...
- § 33-20-27 - Imposition by Commissioner of Administrative Fine for Certain Acts of Officers, Employees, Agents, or Representatives of Corporations
(a) The Commissioner may after a hearing impose upon a health care corporation an administrative fine if he finds that the corporation through the...
- § 33-20-28 - Termination of Organizers, Solicitors, or Agents Engaging in Unfair or Deceptive Practices
Whenever the Commissioner finds after investigation that an organizer, solicitor, or agent of a health care corporation has unfairly or improperly solicited subscription certificates...
- § 33-20-29 - Unlawful Actions by Unauthorized Persons
It shall be unlawful for any person except a health care corporation established in accordance with this chapter and operating in accordance with authority...
- § 33-20-30 - Resolution of Disputes
Any dispute arising within the purview of this chapter with reference to the regulation and supervision of any health care corporation shall within 30...
- § 33-20-31 - Applicability and Construction of Chapter
Except for corporations subject to this chapter which are surviving corporations, this chapter shall not apply to nor govern any corporation which is organized...
- § 33-20-32 - Application of Other Provisions of Code to Health Care Corporations
Except where the context otherwise requires, the applicable provisions of Title 14 shall govern a health care corporation. A health care corporation shall not...
- § 33-20-33 - Payment of Distribution of Reserved Funds or Surplus; Requirements for Initial Public Offering; Fees, Taxes, and Assessments; Applicability of Other Provisions of Title 33; Regulation
(a) No reserved funds as defined in subsection (b) of this Code section or surplus of such nonprofit health care corporation as increased pursuant...
- § 33-20-34 - Conversion of Nonprofit Health Care Corporation; Requirements and Procedures; Rules and Regulations
(a) (1) Any corporation which is governed by Chapter 3 of Title 14, the "Georgia Nonprofit Corporation Code," and authorized under this chapter may...
Last modified: October 14, 2016