(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, provisions of insurance laws and provisions of hospital or medical service corporation laws shall not be applicable to any health maintenance organization granted a certificate of authority under this chapter. This provision shall not apply to an insurer or hospital or medical service corporation licensed and regulated pursuant to the insurance laws of the District except with respect to its health maintenance organization activities authorized and regulated pursuant to this chapter.
(b) Solicitation of enrollees by a health maintenance organization granted a certificate of authority, or its representatives, shall not be construed to violate any provision of law relating to solicitation or advertising by health professionals.
(c) Any health maintenance organization authorized under this chapter shall not be deemed to be practicing medicine and shall be exempt from the provisions set forth by the Board of Medicine relating to the practice of medicine.
(Apr. 9, 1997, D.C. Law 11-235, § 26, 44 DCR 818.)
1981 Ed., § 35-4524.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 31 - Insurance and Securities
Chapter 34 - Health Maintenance Organizations
§ 31–3402. Establishment of health maintenance organizations
§ 31–3403. Issuance of certificate of authority
§ 31–3404. Powers of health maintenance organizations
§ 31–3405. Fiduciary responsibilities
§ 31–3406. Quality assurance program
§ 31–3407. Requirements for group contract, individual contract, and evidence of coverage
§ 31–3408. Annual report. [Repealed]
§ 31–3408.01. Compliance with other laws
§ 31–3409. Information to enrollees
§ 31–3410. Grievance procedures [Repealed]
§ 31–3412. Protection against insolvency
§ 31–3413. Uncovered expenditures insolvency deposit
§ 31–3414. Enrollment period; replacement coverage in the event of insolvency
§ 31–3415. Filing requirements for rating information
§ 31–3416. Regulation of health maintenance organization producers
§ 31–3417. Powers of insurance corporations
§ 31–3418. Examinations. [Repealed]
§ 31–3419. Suspension or revocation of certificate of authority
§ 31–3420. Rehabilitation, liquidation, or conservation of health maintenance organizations
§ 31–3421. Summary orders and supervision
§ 31–3423. Penalties and enforcement
§ 31–3424. Statutory construction and relationship to other laws
§ 31–3425. Filings and reports as public documents
§ 31–3426. Confidentiality of medical information and limitation of liability
§ 31–3427. Acquisition of control of or merger of a health maintenance organization
§ 31–3428. Coordination of benefits. [Repealed]
§ 31–3429. Point of service plan