Georgia Code, Title 33, Chapter 30, Article 2 - Preferred Provider Arrangements

• § 33-30-20 - Short Title
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Preferred Provider Arrangements Act."
• § 33-30-21 - Legislative Intent
  It is the intent of the General Assembly to encourage health care cost containment while preserving quality of care by allowing health care insurers...
• § 33-30-22 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Emergency services" or "emergency care" means those health care services that are provided for a condition...
• § 33-30-23 - Standards; Payments or Reimbursement for Noncontracting Provider of Covered Services; Filing Requirements for Unlicensed Entities; Provision for Payment Solely to Provider
  (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, any health care insurer may enter into preferred provider arrangements as provided in this article....
• § 33-30-24 - Health Benefit Plans Providing Incentives to Use Services of Preferred Providers; Minimum Requirements
  Health care insurers may issue health benefit plans which provide for incentives for covered persons to use the health care services of preferred providers....
• § 33-30-25 - Reasonable Limits on Number or Classes of Preferred Providers
  Subject to the approval of the Commissioner under such procedures as he may develop, health care insurers may place reasonable limits on the number...
• § 33-30-26 - Applicability of Title 33 and Related Rules and Regulations to Health Care Insurers
  Health care insurers as defined in this article shall be subject to and shall be required to comply with all other applicable provisions of...
• § 33-30-27 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations
  The Commissioner shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary or appropriate to the administration and enforcement of this article.
• § 33-30-28 - And 33-30-29
  Redesignated as Code Sections 33-30-12 and 33-30-13 by Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 33, effective March 14, 1991.

Last modified: October 14, 2016