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IA Code § 513C.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 513C - INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET REFORM|Section 513C.11 - Self-funded employer-sponsored health benefit plan participation in reinsurance association.

513C.11 Self-funded employer-sponsored health benefit plan participation in reinsurance association.   1. A self-funded employer-sponsored health benefit plan qualified under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 may voluntarily elect to participate in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association established in section 513C.10 in accordance with the plan of operation and subject to such terms and conditions adopted by the board of the association established in section 514E.2 to provide portability and continuity to its covered employees and their covered spouses and dependents subject to the same terms and conditions as a participating insurer.   2. If the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is amended such that the state may require the participation of a self-funded employer, the individual reinsurance requirements shall apply equally to such employers.   3. When and if the federal government imposes conditions of portability and continuity on self-funded employers qualified under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 that the commissioner deems are substantially similar to those required of Iowa insurers, coverage under such qualified plans shall be deemed qualified prior coverage for purposes of chapter 513B and this chapter.  95 Acts, ch 5, §13; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §67
IA Code § 513C.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 513C - INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET REFORM|Section 513C.12 - Commissioner’s duties.

513C.12 Commissioner’s duties.   The commissioner shall adopt rules administering this chapter.  97 Acts, ch 103, §41
IA Code § 513D.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 513D - ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS|Section 513D.1 - Association health plans.

513D.1 Association health plans.   The commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules that allow for the creation of association health plans that are consistent with the United States department of labor’s regulations in  29 C.F.R. pt. 2510  . A multiple employer welfare arrangement that is recognized as tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(9) and that is registered with the commissioner prior to January 1, 2018, shall not be considered an association health plan unless the multiple employer welfare arrangement affirmatively elects to be treated as an association health plan.  2018 Acts, ch 1063, §5; 2018 Acts, ch 1172, §68; 2019 Acts, ch 59, §183  Referred to in §509.1
IA Code § 513D.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 513D - ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS|Section 513D.2 - Rules and enforcement.

513D.2 Rules and enforcement.   1. The commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules, as necessary, pursuant to chapter 17A to administer this chapter.   2. The commissioner of insurance may take any enforcement action under the commissioner’s authority to enforce compliance with this chapter.  2018 Acts, ch 1063, §6; 2019 Acts, ch 59, §184; 2019 Acts, ch 89, §16
IA Code § 514.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.1 - Applicability — definitions.

514.1 Applicability — definitions.   1. A corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504 for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a nonprofit hospital service plan, whereby hospital service may be provided by the corporation or by a hospital with which it has a contract for service, to the public who become subscribers to this plan under a contract which entitles each subscriber to hospital service; or a corporation organized for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a plan whereby health care service may be provided at the expense of this corporation, by licensed physicians and surgeons, dentists, podiatric physicians, osteopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians and surgeons or chiropractors, to subscribers under contract, entitling each subscriber to health care service, as provided in the contract; or a corporation organized for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a nonprofit pharmaceutical service plan or optometric service plan, whereby pharmaceutical or optometric service may be provided by this corporation or by a licensed pharmacy with which it has a contract for service, to the public who become subscribers to this plan under a contract which entitles each subscriber to pharmaceutical or optometric service; shall be governed by this chapter and is exempt from all other provisions of the insurance laws of this state, unless specifically designated in this chapter, not only in governmental relations with the state but for every other purpose, and additions enacted after July 1, 1939, shall not apply to these corporations unless they are expressly designated in the additions.   2. For the purposes of this chapter:   a. “Health care” means that care necessary for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human physical or mental illness, injury, or disability.   b. “Provider” means a person as defined in section 4.1, subsection 20, which is licensed or authorized in this state to furnish health care services.   c. “Subscriber” means an individual who enters into a contract for health care services with a corporation subject to this chapter and includes a person eligible for mandatory medical assistance or optional medical assistance as defined under chapter 249A, with respect to whom the department of human services has entered into a contract with a firm operating under this chapter.  [C39, §8895.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.1]  83 Acts, ch 27, §11; 83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1122, §3; 86 Acts, ch 1180, §3; 96 Acts, ch 1034, §68; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §96; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §394; 2007 Acts, ch 22, §86; 2013 Acts, ch 138, §76; 2014 Acts, ch 1026, §114
IA Code § 514.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.2 - Incorporation.

514.2 Incorporation.   Persons desiring to form a nonprofit hospital service corporation, or a nonprofit medical service corporation, or a nonprofit pharmaceutical or optometric service corporation shall have been incorporated under the provisions of chapter 504, Code 1989, or shall incorporate under the provisions of current chapter 504.  [C39, §8895.02; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.2]  2003 Acts, ch 108, §97; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1086, §87; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §394; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §62
IA Code § 514.2A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.2A - Service of process.

514.2A Service of process.   A nonprofit health service corporation authorized to do business in this state shall file in the office of the commissioner a power of attorney and an agreement in writing that service of process in any action or proceeding against the corporation may be made on the commissioner and shall be of the same legal force and validity as if made upon the corporation, and that the authority shall continue in force so long as any liability remains outstanding in this state. A copy of the power of attorney, certified by the commissioner, shall be deemed sufficient evidence of the appointment and shall be admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as the original. Service of process made on the commissioner as the attorney for service of process shall be made as provided in section 505.30.  2003 Acts, ch 91, §27; 2018 Acts, ch 1018, §7
IA Code § 514.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.3 - Approval by commissioner.

514.3 Approval by commissioner.   The articles of incorporation, and any subsequent amendments, of a corporation shall have endorsed on or annexed to those articles or amendments the approval of the commissioner of insurance before the same shall be filed for record. A corporation shall file with the commissioner bylaws and subsequent amendments to the bylaws within thirty days of the adoption of the bylaws and amendments.  [C39, §8895.03; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.3]  2000 Acts, ch 1023, §22; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §180
IA Code § 514.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.5 - Contracts for service.

514.5 Contracts for service.   1. A hospital service corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter, may enter into contracts for the rendering of hospital service to any of its subscribers with hospitals maintained and operated by the state or any of its political subdivisions, or by any corporation, association, or individual. Such hospital service corporation may also contract with an ambulatory surgical facility to provide surgical services to the corporation’s subscribers. Hospital service is meant to include bed and board, general nursing care, use of the operating room, use of the delivery room, ordinary medications and dressings and other customary routine care. “Ambulatory surgical facility” means a facility constructed and operated for the specific purpose of providing surgery to patients admitted to and discharged from the facility within the same day.   2. A medical service corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter, may enter into contracts with subscribers to furnish health care service through physicians and surgeons, dentists, podiatric physicians, osteopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, or chiropractors.   3. Any pharmaceutical or optometric service corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter, may enter into contracts for the rendering of pharmaceutical or optometric service to any of its subscribers. Membership in any pharmaceutical service corporation shall be open to all pharmacies licensed under chapter 155A.   4. A hospital service corporation or medical service corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter, may enter into contracts with subscribers and providers to furnish health care services not otherwise allocated by this section.  [C39, §8895.05; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.5]  83 Acts, ch 27, §13; 84 Acts, ch 1122, §4; 86 Acts, ch 1180, §4; 87 Acts, ch 215, §48; 96 Acts, ch 1034, §68; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §98; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §394; 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §146
IA Code § 514.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.6 - Rates — approval by commissioner.

514.6 Rates — approval by commissioner. Repealed by  2004 Acts, ch 1110, §71, 72  .
IA Code § 514.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.8 - Contracts with providers — approval.

514.8 Contracts with providers — approval.   The contracts by any such corporation with participating hospitals for hospital service or with participating physicians and surgeons, dentists, podiatric physicians, osteopathic physicians, or osteopathic physicians and surgeons for medical and surgical service, or with participating pharmacies for pharmaceutical service, or with participating optometrists for optometric service, or with other providers shall at all times be subject to the approval of the commissioner of insurance.  [C39, §8895.08; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.8]  84 Acts, ch 1122, §7; 96 Acts, ch 1034, §68
IA Code § 514.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.9 - Annual report.

514.9 Annual report.   Every such corporation shall annually, on or before the first day of March, file in the office of the commissioner of insurance a statement verified by at least two of the principal officers of said corporation showing its condition on the thirty-first day of December then next preceding, which shall be in such form and shall contain such matters as the commissioner of insurance shall prescribe.  [C39, §8895.09; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.9]
IA Code § 514.9A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.9A - Certificate of authority — renewal.

514.9A Certificate of authority — renewal.   A certificate of authority of a corporation formed under this chapter expires on June 1 succeeding its issue and shall be renewed annually so long as the corporation transacts its business in accordance with all legal requirements. A corporation shall submit annually, on or before March 1, a completed application for renewal of its certificate of authority. A corporation that fails to timely file an application for renewal shall pay an administrative penalty of five hundred dollars to the treasurer of state for deposit as provided in section 505.7. A duly certified copy or duplicate of the certificate is admissible in evidence for or against the corporation with the same effect as the original.  2006 Acts, ch 1117, §57; 2009 Acts, ch 181, §72
IA Code § 514.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.10 - Examination.

514.10 Examination.   Every such corporation shall be subject to examination under the provisions of chapter 507 and any acts amendatory thereto, so far as the chapter may be applicable.  [C39, §8895.10; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.10]
IA Code § 514.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.11 - Costs approved.

514.11 Costs approved.   All acquisition costs in connection with the solicitation of subscribers to such hospital service plan or medical service plan or pharmaceutical or optometric service plan, and administration costs including salaries paid its officers, if any, shall at all times be subject to the approval of the commissioner of insurance.  [C39, §8895.11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.11]
IA Code § 514.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.12 - Investment of funds.

514.12 Investment of funds.   The funds of any corporation subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be invested only in securities permitted by the laws of this state for the investment of funds of life insurance companies.  [C39, §8895.12; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.12]
IA Code § 514.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.13 - Arbitration of disputes.

514.13 Arbitration of disputes.   Any dispute arising between a corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter, and a provider may be submitted to the commissioner of insurance for a decision. All decisions and findings of the commissioner of insurance may be judicially reviewed in accordance with the terms of chapter 17A.  [C39, §8895.13; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.13]  84 Acts, ch 1122, §8; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §147
IA Code § 514.14 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.14 - Dissolution or merger.

514.14 Dissolution or merger.   Any dissolution, merger, or liquidation of a corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter shall be under the supervision of the commissioner of insurance who shall have all powers with respect thereto granted to the commissioner under the insurance laws of this state.  [C39, §8895.14; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.14]  2017 Acts, ch 29, §148
IA Code § 514.15 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.15 - Nonexempt from taxation.

514.15 Nonexempt from taxation.   Every corporation organized under chapter 504, Code 1989, or current chapter 504, and governed by this chapter, is hereby declared to be a charitable and benevolent institution but its property and funds, including subscribers’ contracts, shall not be exempt from taxation. For purposes of this section, the term “subscriber contract” shall mean only those benefit contracts issued or delivered in Iowa by corporations subject to this chapter, including certificates issued under such contracts, and which provide coverage to residents of Iowa on a risk basis.  [C39, §8895.15; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.15; 82 Acts, ch 1003, §6]  85 Acts, ch 239, §3; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §149  Rate of tax; §432.2
IA Code § 514.16 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.16 - Governmental employees included.

514.16 Governmental employees included.   An employee or employees of the state, or of any county, city or of any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, or any subdivisions thereof, may authorize the deduction from their salary or wages of the amount of their subscription payments to any corporation operating a nonprofit hospital service plan or medical service plan or pharmaceutical or optometric service plan, as provided in this chapter. The governing body of the state, or of the county, city or of any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, or any subdivisions thereof, may authorize deductions from the salaries or wages of employees subscribing to such nonprofit hospital service plan or medical service plan or pharmaceutical or optometric service plan. The authorization by an employee or employees for deductions from the employee’s or employees’ salaries or wages shall be evidenced by a written request signed by the employee directed to and filed with the treasurer of the state, county, city or of any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, or any subdivisions thereof, and said treasurer is authorized to draw and deliver checks in favor of the hospital service corporation or medical service corporation or pharmaceutical or optometric service corporation stipulated in such authorization for the amount covering the sum total of the deductions authorized. The foregoing provisions are not to be deemed an assignment of salaries or wages.  [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.16]  Referred to in §509A.3, 514B.21
IA Code § 514.17 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.17 - Physicians and surgeons, podiatric physicians, or dentists — number required.

514.17 Physicians and surgeons, podiatric physicians, or dentists — number required.   No nonprofit medical service corporation shall be permitted to operate until it shall have entered into contracts with at least one hundred fifty physicians and surgeons licensed to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to chapter 148, or one hundred fifty dentists licensed to practice dentistry pursuant to chapter 153, or at least one hundred fifty osteopathic physicians and surgeons licensed to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery pursuant to chapter 148, or at least twenty-five podiatric physicians licensed to practice podiatry pursuant to chapter 149, who agree to furnish medical and surgical, podiatric, or dental service and be governed by the bylaws of the corporation.  [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.17]  96 Acts, ch 1034, §68; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §127
IA Code § 514.18 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.18 - Podiatric physicians.

514.18 Podiatric physicians.   Medical or surgical services or procedures constituting the practice of podiatry, also known as chiropody, as provided in chapter 149, and covered by the terms of any individual, group, blanket, or franchise policy providing accident or health benefits hereafter delivered or hereafter issued for delivery in Iowa and covering an Iowa risk may be performed by any practitioner, selected by the insured, licensed under chapter 149 to perform such medical or surgical services or procedures. Any provision of such policy or exclusion or limitation denying an insured the free choice of such licensed podiatric physician, also known as chiropodist, shall to the extent of the denial, be void, but such voidance shall not affect the validity of the other provisions of the policy.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §514.18]  95 Acts, ch 108, §18; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §150
IA Code § 514.19 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.19 - Combined service corporations.

514.19 Combined service corporations.   A corporation subject to this chapter may combine with any other corporation subject to this chapter as permitted under chapter 504 and upon the approval by the commissioner of insurance. Each corporation shall comply with chapter 504, the corporation’s articles of incorporation, and the corporation’s bylaws. The combined service corporation shall continue the service benefits previously provided by each corporation and may, subject to the approval of the commissioner of insurance, offer other service benefits not previously provided by the corporations before combining, which are permitted under this chapter.  83 Acts, ch 27, §14; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §393; 2007 Acts, ch 22, §87
IA Code § 514.21 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XIII - COMMERCE|Chapter 514 - NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS|Section 514.21 - Utilization review program.

514.21 Utilization review program.   A utilization review program shall be established for purposes of health care cost control, according to usual and customary third-party insurance payment or reimbursement procedures, by a corporation subject to this chapter and by physician providers as defined in section 135.1 and registered nurse providers licensed under chapter 152. This utilization review program shall not be used directly or indirectly to circumvent the provisions for payment or reimbursement to providers of health care services as provided in section 509.3, subsection 1, paragraphs “f” and “g”, and section 514.7.  86 Acts, ch 1180, §9; 89 Acts, ch 164, §4  Utilization and cost control; see also chapter 514F