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MA Gen L ch 176b § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176b - Medical Service Corporations|Section 18 - Contracts for Administrative or Other Services; Loans and Investments

Section 18. Any medical service corporation may contract with any person for the purpose of providing administrative or other services relating to the providing of medical or other health services or reimbursement therefor. In addition, with the approval of the commissioner who shall consider the effect upon subscriber agreements and subscriber rates, a medical service corporation may, after being authorized by its board of directors, or by a committee thereof, charged with the duty of authorizing transactions under this section, make loans to, guarantee loans of and make investments in hospitals and providers of other health services for the purpose of improving efficiency, reducing costs, or increasing benefits in the delivery of health services to subscribers and others.
MA Gen L ch 176b § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176b - Medical Service Corporations|Section 19 - Payment of Sums Owed Subscriber's Estate

Section 19. A medical service corporation which, upon the death of a subscriber, owes the subscriber's estate an aggregate sum not exceeding two thousand dollars under any medical service agreement, may, at any time not less than sixty days after the subscriber's death, pay such sum to the husband, wife and next of kin of the subscriber and any such payment made in good faith shall fully discharge the corporation to the extent thereof; provided, however, that this section shall not apply if, prior to the time of such payment, the corporation has received a written claim under the subscriber's medical service agreement from any executor, administrator, or special administrator of the subscriber's estate.
MA Gen L ch 176b § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176b - Medical Service Corporations|Section 22 - Statement Provided to Individuals Provided With Creditable Coverage; Report

Section 22. Pursuant to section 8B of chapter 62C, any corporation subject to this chapter shall provide written statements to residents of the commonwealth for whom creditable coverage is provided and shall provide a separate report verifying those statements to the commissioner of revenue.
MA Gen L ch 176b § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176b - Medical Service Corporations|Section 23 - Attribution of Members to a Primary Care Provider

Section 23. To the maximum extent possible, every medical service corporation shall attribute every member to a primary care provider. Members may change their primary care provider, provided that the member gives notice to the carrier.
MA Gen L ch 176b § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176b - Medical Service Corporations|Section 24 - Disclosure of Patient-Level Data and Contracted Prices of Individual Health Care Services by Carriers to Providers

Section 24. To the extent permissible under applicable state and federal privacy laws, every medical service corporation shall disclose patient-level data to providers in their network solely for the purpose of carrying out treatment, coordinating care among providers and managing the care of their own patient panel; provided, that an individual provider shall only receive patient-level data related to patients treated by said provider. Patient-level data shall include, but not be limited to, health care service utilization, medical expenses, and demographics.  The division of insurance shall develop procedures and a standard format for disclosing such patient-level information. The division may require every medical service corporation to disclose such information through the all-payer claims database established under section 12 of chapter 12C if the division and the center for health information and analysis determine that the all-payer claims database is an efficient means to provide such information.  Medical service corporations shall make available to any provider with whom they have entered into an alternative payment contract, the contracted prices of individual health care services within such payer's network for the purpose of referrals.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. In this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:  ''Medical service plan'', any plan or arrangement whereby members of the public pay regular subscription amounts and are entitled in return therefor to medical services.  ''Medical service corporation'', any non-profit corporation which receives subscription payments from subscribing members and in return therefor makes available to subscribing members the benefits of any agreements which the corporation has with a medical organization for the rendering of care to its members.  ''Medical organization'', any medical society or partnership of physicians whose members are members of the Massachusetts Medical Society or other recognized association of physicians, or whose members are members of the staff of any hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons, and which agrees to provide medical services to the subscribing members of a medical service plan.  ''Associated physician'', any physician duly licensed to practice medicine in the commonwealth who complies with the qualifications, rules and regulations of a medical organization approved by the department of public health or any chiropractor registered under the provisions of chapter one hundred and twelve and who agrees in writing with the medical organization to perform any of the medical services specified in the form of subscribing members' agreement issued by a medical service corporation, and who agrees to accept compensation therefor in the manner hereinafter set forth.  ''Recognized association of physicians'', an organized medical society or association, membership in which is contingent upon established professional qualifications and which is nationally recognized in the medical profession.  ''Subscribing member'', any member of the public who is accepted as a subscribing member, with or without dependents, by a medical service corporation and who pays regular subscription dues to such corporation.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 2 - Application of Chapter; Exemption From Insurance Laws; Exemption From Practice of Medicine Provisions

Section 2. Any medical service plan, and any medical service corporation or medical organization operating in connection with a medical service plan, under the laws of the commonwealth, shall be governed by this chapter and shall, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, be exempt from all provisions of the insurance laws of the commonwealth. Any medical service corporation operating under this chapter shall not be deemed to be practicing medicine and shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter one hundred and twelve relating to the practice of medicine.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 3 - Incorporators; Approval of Certificate of Organization; Board of Directors

Section 3. Persons desiring to form a medical service corporation shall incorporate as provided in section three of chapter one hundred and eighty. Every certificate of organization of a medical service corporation formed under this chapter, before being filed under chapter one hundred and eighty, shall have endorsed thereon or attached thereto the consent of the department of public health and of the commissioner of public welfare. The board of directors of a medical service corporation shall number not less than nine, of whom at least three and not more than one third shall be subscribing members of such a medical service corporation and of whom at least three and not more than one third shall be physicians who are members of the Massachusetts Medical Society or other recognized association of physicians and who are not associated physicians of the medical service plan.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 4 - Contracts to Provide Medical Service

Section 4. No medical service corporation shall, through its own agents or employees, provide any medical services, but any such corporation may enter into an agreement with one or more medical organizations whereby said medical organization or organizations agree to provide specified medical services for the subscribing members of the said medical service corporation; provided, that said agreement shall provide for the payment of a stipulated percentage or percentages of the subscriptions or other receipts, or both, of the medical service corporation to the medical organization and shall not provide for any specific amounts, whether or not based upon the number of services rendered to subscribing members. Any such agreement shall be subject to the approval of the department of public health.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 5 - Medical Organization Defined; Content of Agreement; Protection of Patient-Physician Relationship; Approval of Department of Public Health

Section 5. Any medical organization shall consist of not less than five physicians who are duly registered to practice in the commonwealth and who are members of the Massachusetts Medical Society or other recognized association of physicians, or are members of the staff of any hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons. Any medical organization may enter into an agreement with any duly registered physician whereby such associated physician agrees to furnish medical services to the subscribing members of a medical service corporation with which the medical organization has an agreement and whereby such associated physician agrees to accept as payment for said services a proportion of the funds received by the said medical organization from the said medical service corporation. Such agreement to accept payment for services shall provide for payment according to units of funds received by the said medical organization and shall not provide for specified amounts, whether according to the services rendered by the said physician or otherwise. Nothing herein shall change the normal relations between patient and physician nor prohibit any medical organization from employing a medical director and assistants, or nurses, or establishing a clinic for the rendering of medical services. Any such agreement between a medical organization and its associated physicians shall be subject to the approval of the department of public health.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 6 - Associated Physician; Grounds for Termination of Agreement

Section 6. Every registered physician who complies with the qualifications, rules and regulations of a medical organization doing business in the community where such physician resides or practices, approved by the department of public health, shall have the right to become an associated physician of said medical organization. A medical organization may terminate its agreement with any associated physician for rendering any fraudulent or improper claim for payment or for failure reasonably to observe the approved rules and regulations of such medical organization including those governing the reports of services and the keeping of accounts and records or for failure to comply with the professional code of ethics as accepted by organized medicine.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 7 - Subscribers; Choice of Physician

Section 7. Any person residing in the commonwealth who meets the qualifications specified in the by-laws of a medical service corporation shall have the right to become a subscribing member of the corporation. No officer, agent or employee of a medical service corporation shall influence or attempt to influence a subscribing member, or his dependent, in his choice of an associated physician. Any medical service corporation may, at its discretion, deny the right of membership to any person who makes any fraudulent claim or representation to the medical service corporation or associated physician or who has failed after a reasonable period of grace, to pay dues or other charges as provided in the subscription agreement, or for any other cause which may be approved by the department of public health.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 8 - Form and Content of Subscription Agreement

Section 8. A subscription agreement in a form approved by the department of public health shall be issued to each subscribing member of a medical service corporation. In addition to any other requirements such a form must meet the minimum readability standards required by section two B of chapter one hundred and seventy-five. Such agreement shall include a full and accurate statement of the benefits of membership, the medical services excluded if any, and the terms of duration, cancellation and termination. The by-laws, rules and regulations of a medical service corporation may by reference be incorporated in the subscription agreement; provided, that a full and complete copy of said by-laws, rules and regulations shall be available to any subscriber.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 9 - Annual Statement; Verification; Content; Violations

Section 9. Every medical service 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 as of the thirty-first day of December next preceding. Said statement shall be in such form and shall contain such other matters as the commissioner of insurance shall prescribe. A corporation neglecting to make and file its annual statement in the form and within the time herein specified shall forfeit one hundred dollars for each day during which such neglect continues after notification by said commissioner of such neglect, and thirty days after said notice said commissioner may terminate its authority to do new business while such default continues.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 11 - Depositary for Funds

Section 11. The funds of any corporation subject to this chapter shall be kept only in banks in which funds of the commonwealth are authorized to be deposited, or by depositing on paid-up shares and accounts of and in co-operative banks, or by investing in share accounts of federal savings and loan associations located in this commonwealth in accordance with the authority and limitations specified in section ten of chapter one hundred and seventy-six B.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 12 - Submission of Disputes; Review of Determination

Section 12. Any dispute arising between a medical service corporation and any medical organization with which such corporation has an agreement as provided by this chapter may be submitted to the department of public health for its decision with respect thereto. All decisions and findings of any state department or officer made under any provision of this chapter may be revised by proper proceedings in the superior court.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 13 - Grounds for Enjoining Transaction of Business; Receivers; Distribution of Funds

Section 13. If the department of public health is satisfied as to any corporation subject to this chapter that:  1. It has failed to comply with the provisions of its charter, or  2. It is being operated for profit, or  3. It is fraudulently conducted, or  4. Its condition is such as to render its further transaction of business hazardous to the public or to its subscribers, or  5. Its officers and agents have refused to submit to an examination under section ten, or  6. It has exceeded its powers, or  7. It has violated any provision of law,  it may apply to the supreme judicial court for an injunction restraining such corporation from further proceeding with its business. The court may forthwith issue a temporary injunction restraining the transaction of any business, and it may after a full hearing make the injunction permanent and appoint one or more receivers to take possession of the books, papers, monies and other assets of the corporation, settle its affairs, and distribute its funds to those entitled thereto, subject to such rules and orders as the court may prescribe.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 14 - Tax Exemption; Liability

Section 14. Every corporation subject to this chapter is hereby declared to be a charitable and benevolent corporation and, except as hereinafter provided, its property shall be exempt from state, county, district and municipal taxes. No such corporation nor any medical organization shall be liable for injuries resulting from negligence or malpractice on the part of any associated physician or any of its employees.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 15 - Excise Tax; Violation

Section 15. Every corporation subject to this chapter shall annually on or before March first, make a return to the commissioner of revenue, signed and sworn to by a majority of its board of directors, of the total amount of subscription dues paid by subscribing members during the preceding calendar year, and shall pay to said commissioner an excise of one per cent upon the amount of such dues. If said corporation neglects to make such return, it shall forfeit fifty dollars for each day such neglect continues.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 16 - Salaries, Compensation or Emoluments

Section 16. No corporation subject to this chapter shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor shall any such corporation pay any salary, compensation or emolument, amounting in any year to more than five thousand dollars, to any person, unless such payment be first authorized by a vote of its board of directors. No corporation subject to this chapter shall make any agreement with any of its officers, trustees or employees whereby it agrees that for any services rendered or to be rendered he shall receive any salary, compensation or emolument for a period of more than three years from the date of such agreement.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 16a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 16a - Pay-Roll Deductions for Governmental Employees

Section 16A. The pertinent provisions of section one hundred and thirty-eight A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five shall apply to deductions on pay-roll schedules from the salary of any state, county or municipal employee for the payment of the amount payable by such an employee under a contract issued to him as a subscribing member by a medical service corporation.
MA Gen L ch 176c § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans|Section 17 - Right of Organization to Provide Medical Services

Section 17. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the providing of medical services by an educational or other charitable institution to the persons whom it serves, nor to prohibit any business organization from providing medical services for its employees, nor to prohibit an insurance company, or other corporation or society which is subject to the supervision of the commissioner of insurance, from operating in accordance with the laws governing insurance companies or such corporations or societies.
MA Gen L ch 176d § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176d - Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices in the Business of Insurance|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. When used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings except as otherwise specifically provided:  (a) ''Person'', any individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds insurer, fraternal benefit society, operators of any medical service plan and hospital service plan as defined in chapters 176B, 176C, 176E and 176F, carriers and health maintenance organizations as defined in chapter 176G, insurers and sponsors of a legal services plan as defined in chapter 176H, any other legal entity or self insurer which is engaged in the business of insurance, including agents, brokers, and adjusters, the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund and any joint underwriting association established pursuant to law. For purposes of this chapter, operators of any such medical and hospital service plans and carriers and such health maintenance organizations shall be engaged in the business of insurance.  (b) ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of insurance.  (c) ''Insurance policy'' or ''insurance contract'', any contract or insurance, indemnity, medical or hospital service, dental or optometric, suretyship, or annuity issued, proposed for issuance or intended for issuance by any person.
MA Gen L ch 176d § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 176d - Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices in the Business of Insurance|Section 2 - Unfair Trade Practices

Section 2. No person shall engage in this commonwealth in any trade practice which is defined in this chapter as, or determined pursuant to section six of this chapter to be, an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance.