General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 176C Non-profit Medical Service Plans

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 176C, Section 1
  In this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: “Medical service plan”, any plan or arrangement whereby members of the public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter; exemption from insurance laws; exemption from practice of medicine provisions - Chapter 176C, Section 2
  Any medical service plan, and any medical service corporation or medical organization operating in connection with a medical service plan, under the laws of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Incorporators; approval of certificate of organization; board of directors - Chapter 176C, Section 3
  Persons desiring to form a medical service corporation shall incorporate as provided in section three of chapter one hundred and eighty. Every certificate of organization...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts to provide medical service - Chapter 176C, Section 4
  No medical service corporation shall, through its own agents or employees, provide any medical services, but any such corporation may enter into an agreement with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical organization defined; content of agreement; protection of patient-physician relationship; approval of department of public health - Chapter 176C, Section 5
  Any medical organization shall consist of not less than five physicians who are duly registered to practice in the commonwealth and who are members of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Associated physician; grounds for termination of agreement - Chapter 176C, Section 6
  Every registered physician who complies with the qualifications, rules and regulations of a medical organization doing business in the community where such physician resides or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Subscribers; choice of physician - Chapter 176C, Section 7
  Any person residing in the commonwealth who meets the qualifications specified in the by-laws of a medical service corporation shall have the right to become...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form and content of subscription agreement - Chapter 176C, Section 8
  A subscription agreement in a form approved by the department of public health shall be issued to each subscribing member of a medical service corporation....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual statement; verification; content; violations - Chapter 176C, Section 9
  Every medical service corporation shall annually on or before the first day of March file in the office of the commissioner of insurance a statement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection and examination of corporate affairs; access to information - Chapter 176C, Section 10
  The commissioner of insurance or any deputy or other person whom the said commissioner shall designate shall, at least once in three years and whenever...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Depositary for funds - Chapter 176C, Section 11
  The funds of any corporation subject to this chapter shall be kept only in banks in which funds of the commonwealth are authorized to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of disputes; review of determination - Chapter 176C, Section 12
  Any dispute arising between a medical service corporation and any medical organization with which such corporation has an agreement as provided by this chapter may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grounds for enjoining transaction of business; receivers; distribution of funds - Chapter 176C, Section 13
  If the department of public health is satisfied as to any corporation subject to this chapter that: 1. It has failed to comply with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tax exemption; liability - Chapter 176C, Section 14
  Every corporation subject to this chapter is hereby declared to be a charitable and benevolent corporation and, except as hereinafter provided, its property shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Excise tax; violation - Chapter 176C, Section 15
  Every corporation subject to this chapter shall annually on or before March first, make a return to the commissioner of revenue, signed and sworn to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries, compensation or emoluments - Chapter 176C, Section 16
  No corporation subject to this chapter shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor shall any such corporation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pay-roll deductions for governmental employees - Chapter 176C, Section 16A
  The pertinent provisions of section one hundred and thirty-eight A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five shall apply to deductions on pay-roll schedules from the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Right of organization to provide medical services - Chapter 176C, Section 17
  Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the providing of medical services by an educational or other charitable institution to the persons whom it serves,...

Last modified: September 11, 2015