TITLE 41

INSURANCE

CHAPTER 34

HOSPITAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS

41-3420.  Charges and rates. (1) Subscription rates, fees, and payments to be charged by a service corporation to or on account of its subscribers shall not be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory; and rates of payments to be made to participant physicians, participant hospitals, and participant pharmacists for services rendered under a subscriber’s contract, shall be fair and reasonable.

(2)  The service corporation shall, before use, file with the director a schedule of subscription rates, fees, or payments of any kind to be charged subscribers; and shall likewise so file before use every proposed change or modification in such rates, fees, or payments.

(3)  If the subscriber’s contracts to be issued by the service corporation provide for indemnity benefits, where permitted under this chapter, the service corporation shall include in the rate, fee, or payment required of the subscriber an adequate additional charge for such indemnity benefit, and shall separately set forth the amount of such additional charge in the schedule filed with the director.

History:

[41-3420, added 1961, ch. 330, sec. 778, p. 645; am. 1967, ch. 399, sec. 11, p. 1194.]