Sec. 1501.306. SYSTEM PLAN OF OPERATION. (a) The board shall submit to the commissioner a plan of operation and any amendments to that plan necessary or suitable to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the system.
(b) The commissioner, after notice and hearing, may approve the plan of operation if the commissioner determines the plan:
(1) is suitable to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the system; and
(2) provides for the sharing of system gains or losses on an equitable and proportionate basis in accordance with this subchapter.
(c) The plan of operation is effective on the written approval of the commissioner.
(d) The plan of operation must:
(1) establish procedures for:
(A) handling and accounting for system assets and money;
(B) making an annual fiscal report to the commissioner;
(C) selecting an administering health benefit plan issuer or third-party administrator and establishing the powers and duties of the administering issuer or third-party administrator;
(D) reinsuring risks in accordance with this subchapter; and
(E) collecting assessments from reinsured health benefit plan issuers to fund claims and administrative expenses incurred or estimated to be incurred by the system, including the imposition of penalties for late payment of an assessment; and
(2) provide for any additional matter necessary to implement and administer the system.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 8 - Health Insurance and Other Health Coverages
Subtitle G - Health Coverage Availability
Chapter 1501 - Health Insurance Portability and Availability Act
Subchapter G. Reinsurance for Small Employer Health Benefit Plans
Section 1501.302. Texas Health Reinsurance System
Section 1501.3021. Authorization of Operation
Section 1501.3022. Suspension of Operation
Section 1501.303. System Board of Directors
Section 1501.304. Open Meetings; Public Information
Section 1501.305. Board Member Immunity
Section 1501.306. System Plan of Operation
Section 1501.307. System Powers
Section 1501.308. System Notes as Legal Investment for Small Employer Health Benefit Plan Issuer
Section 1501.309. System Audit
Section 1501.310. Election of Status
Section 1501.311. Change in Status
Section 1501.312. Application to Operate as Risk-Assuming Health Benefit Plan Issuer
Section 1501.313. Rescission of Approval to Operate as Risk-Assuming Health Benefit Plan Issuer
Section 1501.315. Limits on Reinsurance
Section 1501.316. Termination of Reinsurance
Section 1501.317. Application of Managed Care Procedures
Section 1501.318. Premium Rates for Reinsurance
Section 1501.319. Determination of Net Loss
Section 1501.320. Assessments to Recover Net Losses
Section 1501.321. Limits on Assessments
Section 1501.322. Adjustment to Assessments on Federally Qualified Health Maintenance Organizations
Section 1501.323. Advance Interim Assessments
Section 1501.324. Limit on Total Assessments
Section 1501.325. Estimate of Assessments; Evaluation and Protection of System