The purposes of ORS 743.730 to 743.773 are:
(1) To promote the availability of health insurance coverage to groups regardless of their enrollees’ health status or claims experience;
(2) To prevent abusive rating practices;
(3) To require disclosure of rating practices to purchasers of small employer, portability and individual health benefit plans;
(4) To establish limitations on the use of preexisting conditions provisions;
(5) To make basic health benefit plans available to all small employers;
(6) To encourage the availability of portability and individual health benefit plans for individuals who are not enrolled in group health benefit plans;
(7) To improve renewability and continuity of coverage for employers and covered individuals;
(8) To improve the efficiency and fairness of the health insurance marketplace; and
(9) To ensure that health insurance coverage in Oregon satisfies the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-191) and that enforcement authority for those requirements is retained by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. [1991 c.916 §2; 1993 c.18 §158; 1993 c.649 §11; 1995 c.603 §2; 1997 c.716 §4]
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