For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “group model health maintenance organization” means a health maintenance organization that has an exclusive contract with a medical group practice to provide or arrange for the provision of substantially all physician services to enrollees in health benefits plans of the health maintenance organization; or
History. Code 1981, § 26-4-60 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 686, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 26; Ga. L. 1999, p. 277, § 8; Ga. L. 2006, p. 444, § 1/HB 246; Ga. L. 2007, p. 463, § 1/SB 205; Ga. L. 2011, p. 541, § 2/SB 81; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1092, § 1/SB 346; Ga. L. 2013, p. 192, § 1-16/HB 132; Ga. L. 2016, p. 521, § 1/HB 886; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 26/HB 323; Ga. L. 2019, p. 462, § 1-7/SB 214.
The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, deleted “or ” at the end of division (a)(11)(A)(vii); in subparagraph (a)(11)(B), in the first sentence, substituted “prescription drugs ” for “prescription drug refills ” near the beginning, and inserted “or to a patient on behalf of a pharmacy ” at the end; added “or ” at the end of the undesignated text following division (a)(11)(B)(iv); and added subparagraph (a)(11)(C).
The 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, rewrote subsection (a); substituted “guilty or a plea of guilty, nolo contendere, or no contest” for “guilty, a plea of guilty, or a plea of nolo contendere” in subsection (g); and added subsections (l) through (q).
The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, in division (a)(11)(A)(vi), inserted “a shipping method” near the beginning, substituted “recognized standards. The shipping method may include the use of” for “standards adopted by the State Board of Pharmacy,” near the end, and deleted “and” at the end; in division (a)(11)(A)(vii), added “and” at the end; added division (a)(11)(A)(viii); rewrote division (a)(11)(B)(ii); and, in division (a)(11)(B)(iii), inserted “a shipping method” near the beginning and substituted “recognized standards. The shipping method may include the use of” for “standards adopted by the State Board of Pharmacy,” near the end.
The 2017 amendment, effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised language and punctuation in division (a)(11)(B)(ii).
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, rewrote subsection (k), which read: “The board shall have the power to suspend any license issued under Article 3 of this chapter when such holder is a borrower in default who is not in satisfactory repayment status as provided in Code Section 20-3-295. The board shall also have the power to deny the application for issuance or renewal of a license under Article 3 of this chapter when such applicant is a borrower in default who is not in satisfactory repayment status as provided in Code Section 20-3-295. The hearings and appeals procedures provided for in Code Section 20-3-295 shall be the only such procedures required to suspend or deny any license issued under Article 3 of this chapter.”
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1998, the provisions enacted as subsection (d) of Code Section 26-4-78 by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1094, § 7, were redesignated as subsection (k) of this Code section and “are” was substituted for “is” near the end of subsection (h).