40-3232. Insolvent health maintenance organization; allocation of insureds to other health maintenance organizations, when; eligibility for Kansas uninsurable health insurance plan act, when. (a) In the event of an insolvency of a health maintenance organization, the commissioner may order that all other carriers that participated in the enrollment process with the insolvent health maintenance organization at a group's last regular enrollment period shall offer the group's enrollees of the insolvent health maintenance organization a 30-day enrollment period commencing upon the date of insolvency. Under such order each carrier shall offer to each enrollee of the insolvent health maintenance organization the same coverages that such insolvent health maintenance organization had offered to each enrollee of the group at such group's last regular enrollment period at rates determined in accordance with the successor health maintenance organization's existing rating methodology.
(b) Any individual or enrollee who has health insurance coverage involuntarily terminated because of the insolvency of such individual's or enrollee's health maintenance organization shall be treated as the equivalent of a federally defined eligible individual for the purposes of the Kansas uninsurable health insurance plan act, K.S.A. 40-2117 et seq. and amendments thereto.
History: L. 2000, ch. 147, ยง 33; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 32 - Health Maintenance Organizations And Medicare Provider Organizations
40-3207 Denial, suspension or revocation of certificate; administrative penalty; notice; hearing.
40-3210 Prepaid per capita or aggregate fixed sum contracts authorized.
40-3211 Examination of organizations and providers.
40-3212 Filings and reports as public documents.
40-3214 Construction and relationship to other laws.
40-3215 Rules and regulations.
40-3217 Operational health maintenance organizations; issuance of certificate.
40-3218 Contractual designation of persons to make recommended findings to commissioner.
40-3219 Effect of act on federal assistance.
40-3221 Liability of officers.
40-3222 Use of certain words and initials prohibited.
40-3225 Fiduciary responsibilities; fidelity bond or insurance.
40-3226 Confidentiality of medical information.
40-3228 Grievance procedures; minimum requirements.
40-3230 Continuity of treatment upon termination of provider from plan.
40-3234 Health maintenance organization; financial condition; hearing; commissioner's powers.
40-3235 Health maintenance organization act; provisions supplemental to.