CHAPTER 39
HB 95 – FINAL VERSION
2011 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 95
AN ACT permitting an insurer to operate a health maintenance organization as a line of business.
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
This bill allows an insurer to operate a health maintenance organization as a line of business.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11-0385
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT permitting an insurer to operate a health maintenance organization as a line of business.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
39:1 Health Maintenance Organizations; Powers of Insurers and Hospital and Medical Service Corporations. Amend RSA 420-B:19, I to read as follows:
I. An insurance company licensed in this state, or a hospital, medical or health service corporation authorized to do business in this state, either directly or through a subsidiary or affiliate, may organize and operate a health maintenance organization under the provisions of this chapter. An insurance company licensed in this state, or a hospital, medical or health services corporation shall obtain a certificate of authority pursuant to RSA 420-B:2 and shall comply with all of the provisions of this chapter with respect to its health maintenance organization activities. Notwithstanding any other law which may be inconsistent herewith, any 2 or more such insurance companies, hospitals or medical service corporations, or subsidiaries or affiliates thereof, may jointly organize and operate a health maintenance organization. The business of insurance is deemed to include the providing of health care services by a health maintenance organization owned or operated by an insurer or a subsidiary thereof.
39:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 9, 2011
Effective Date: July 8, 2011