Effective: October 1, 2011
Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
(A) Each health insuring corporation shall accept individuals for open enrollment coverage as provided in sections 3923.58 and 3923.581 of the Revised Code. A health insuring corporation may reinsure coverage of any individual acquired under those sections with the open enrollment reinsurance program in accordance with division (G) of section 3924.11 of the Revised Code. Fixed periodic prepayment rates charged for coverage reinsured by the program shall be established in accordance with section 3924.12 of the Revised Code.
(B) This section does not apply to any of the following:
(1) Any health insuring corporation that offers only supplemental health care services or specialty health care services;
(2) Any health insuring corporation that offers plans only through medicare or medicaid and that has no other commercial enrollment;
(3) Any health insuring corporation that offers plans only through other federal health care programs regulated by federal regulatory bodies and that has no other commercial enrollment;
(4) Any health insuring corporation that offers plans only through contracts covering officers or employees of the state that have been entered into by the department of administrative services and that has no other commercial enrollment.