(1) Every prepaid health clinic contract shall be construed according to the entirety of its terms and conditions as set forth in the contract and as amplified, extended, or modified by any application therefor or any rider, endorsement, attachment, or addendum to the contract.
(2) The term “physician” or “medical doctor,” when used in any contract providing for the payment of surgical procedures which are specified in the contract or performed in an accredited hospital in consultation with a licensed physician and are within the scope of a dentist’s professional license, shall be construed to include a dentist who performs such specified procedures.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when any contract provides for the payment for procedures which are specified in the contract and are within the scope of an optometrist’s or podiatric physician’s professional license, such contract shall be construed to include payment to an optometrist or podiatric physician who performs such procedures. In the case of podiatric medicine services, payments shall be made in accordance with the coverage now provided for medical and surgical benefits.
History.—ss. 10, 11, ch. 84-313; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 226, ch. 98-166.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 641 - Health Care Service Programs
Part II - Prepaid Health Clinics (Ss. 641.40-641.459)
641.401 - Declaration of legislative intent, findings, and purposes.
641.4015 - Part exclusive; applicability of other laws.
641.403 - Rulemaking authority.
641.405 - Application for certificate of authority to operate prepaid health clinic.
641.406 - Issuance of certificate of authority.
641.4065 - Insurance business not authorized.
641.408 - Use of certain words prohibited in the name of a prepaid health clinic.
641.409 - Insolvency protection.
641.4091 - Levy upon deposit; limitation.
641.41 - Annual report of prepaid health clinic; administrative penalty.
641.411 - Other reporting requirements.
641.414 - Investment of funds of prepaid health clinic.
641.418 - Examination of prepaid health clinic by the office.
641.419 - Rehabilitation, liquidation, conservation, or dissolution of prepaid health clinic.
641.42 - Prepaid health clinic contracts.
641.421 - Language used in contracts and advertisements; translations.
641.422 - Contract provisions incorporating charter or bylaw provisions.
641.423 - Execution of contracts.
641.424 - Validity of noncomplying contracts.
641.425 - Construction of contracts.
641.426 - Delivery of contract to subscriber.
641.427 - Notice of cancellation, termination, or nonrenewal of contract.
641.428 - Nondiscrimination of coverage for certain surgical procedures involving bones or joints.
641.429 - Acceptable payments to prepaid health clinic.
641.437 - Investigatory power of office.
641.438 - Genetic information restrictions.
641.44 - Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited.
641.441 - Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined.
641.443 - Temporary restraining orders.
641.446 - Cease and desist and penalty orders.
641.448 - Penalty for violation of cease and desist order.
641.452 - Administrative penalty in lieu of suspension or revocation of certificate of authority.
641.454 - Civil action to enforce prepaid health clinic contract; attorney’s fees; court costs.
641.455 - Disposition of moneys collected under this part.
641.457 - Exemption for certain operational prepaid health clinics.