Application for certificate of authority - Requirements.

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The Insurance Commissioner may certify nonprofit health maintenance organization corporations by issuing a certificate of authority, authorizing the applicant to issue contracts to its subscribers, when it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that:

1. The applicant is established as a bona fide nonprofit health maintenance organization corporation;

2. The contracts between the applicant and the participating physicians or other providers of health services obligate each provider executing the same to render service to which each subscriber may be entitled under the terms of the contract to be issued to the subscribers;

3. The amount of required working capital of the corporation is paid into the corporation and, if subject to repayment, can be repaid only out of operating income, without endangering the solvency or financial strength of the nonprofit health maintenance organization corporation; and

4. The nonprofit corporation has met, or will be able to meet, the requirements set forth in the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 2003 and the risk-based capital for the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 2003.

Added by Laws 2014, c. 272, § 3, eff. July 1, 2014.


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