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MO Rev Stat § 354.025 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.025 - Corporate purposes and authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.025. Corporate purposes and authority. — A health services corporation may be organized for the purposes of establishing and operating a voluntary, nonprofit plan or plans under which hospital care, medical-surgical care, and other health care and services, or reimbursement therefor, may be furnished to persons who become members or beneficiaries; of acting as agent or intermediary for other health services corporations, for any governmental body or agency, or for other corporations, associations, partnerships or individuals in the field of health care and services; and of research, education or related activity to further objects within the purview of sections 354.010 to 354.380. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 4, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.027 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.027 - Discrimination in coverage or reimbursement for covered service by licensed persons, prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   354.027. Discrimination in coverage or reimbursement for covered service by licensed persons, prohibited. — A health services corporation which provides its members or beneficiaries with coverage for certain services, or reimbursement therefor, shall provide such coverage or reimbursement in all situations in which the covered service is performed by a person duly licensed to perform such service. No health services corporation may discriminate in its coverage or reimbursement amounts for covered services among persons duly licensed to provide such covered services. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any federally qualified health maintenance organization. This section shall apply to all contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 1984. This section shall apply only to persons duly licensed as physicians, surgeons, optometrists, chiropractors, dentists, psychologists, pharmacists, pharmacies, or podiatrists, as defined by and in accordance with the statutes of the state of Missouri. ­­-------- (L. 1983 H.B. 127, A.L. 1993 H.B. 709)
MO Rev Stat § 354.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.030 - For-profit corporations excluded from act.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983, 2 histories   354.030. For-profit corporations excluded from act. — No group, association or organization created for or engaged in business or activity for profit, provision for the incorporation of which is made by any of the corporation laws of this state, shall be organized or operate, directly or indirectly, as a health services corporation under sections 354.010 to 354.380. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 5, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.035 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.035 - Procedure for organization of corporation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.035. Procedure for organization of corporation. — A health services corporation may be organized in the manner provided for the organization of a general not-for-profit corporation in chapter 355 by filing articles of incorporation in triplicate in the office of the secretary of state. One copy of the articles of incorporation shall be forwarded by the secretary of state to the director. If the secretary of state finds that the purposes stated in the articles of incorporation are within the purview of, and limited to the purposes authorized by, section 354.025, and that such articles otherwise conform to law, he shall, when all fees and charges have been paid, file one of such triplicate originals in his office and issue a certificate of incorporation to which he shall affix the other triplicate original. The certificate of incorporation and copy of articles of incorporation shall be delivered by the secretary of state to the incorporators. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 6, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.040 - Articles of incorporation, required information and contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983, 2 histories   354.040. Articles of incorporation, required information and contents. — In addition to the contents required or permitted by chapter 355, the articles of incorporation of a health services corporation shall comply with the following:  (1) The name of the corporation shall not include the words "insurance", "casualty", "surety", "mutual", or any other words descriptive of the insurance, casualty or surety business;  (2) The corporate name of any corporation to be formed under sections 354.010 to 354.380 shall not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, the name of any other corporation authorized to do business in this state;  (3) The statement of purposes shall be in conformity with the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380;  (4) Any such corporation organized prior to September 28, 1973, whose existing articles of incorporation shall not be in substantial conformity with sections 354.010 to 354.380, shall adopt and file, as provided in sections 354.010 to 354.380, such amendments to its articles as are necessary to effect substantial compliance with sections 354.010 to 354.380. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 7, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.045 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.045 - Issuance of certificate, effect of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.045. Issuance of certificate, effect of. — Upon the issuance of the certificate of incorporation by the secretary of state, the corporate existence shall begin, and such certificate of incorporation shall be conclusive evidence, except against the state, that all conditions precedent required to be performed by the incorporators have been complied with and that the corporation has been incorporated under sections 354.010 to 354.380. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 8, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.050 - General powers of corporation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983, 2 histories   354.050. General powers of corporation. — The corporation shall have all the powers, rights and privileges of a corporation organized under chapter 355, except insofar as such provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380, but it shall not commence its business or operations until it receives authority to do so from the director of the department of commerce and insurance, as provided in section 354.055. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 9, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.055 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.055 - Certificate of authority required — expiration of, extended how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.055. Certificate of authority required — expiration of, extended how. — No corporation subject to the provisions of this chapter shall commence operations or transact any business in this state unless it shall first procure from the director of the department of commerce and insurance a certificate of authority stating that the requirements of the laws of this state have been complied with and authorizing it to do business. The certificate of authority shall expire on the last day of June in each year, but shall be extended automatically pending formal renewal by the director, if the corporation has continued to comply with the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 and of the laws of this state. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 10, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.060 - Director to issue certificate, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983, 2 histories   354.060. Director to issue certificate, when. — 1. The director of the department of commerce and insurance shall determine that all the requirements of sections 354.010 to 354.380 for commencement of business have been complied with, and upon such determination shall issue to the corporation a certificate of authority to do business as a health services corporation under sections 354.010 to 354.380.  2. The director shall not issue or renew his certificate of authority to any corporation operating or proposing to operate under the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380, unless such corporation shall be in compliance with all the requirements of sections 354.010 to 354.380. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 11, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.065 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.065 - Articles of incorporation, how amended — copy to director, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   354.065. Articles of incorporation, how amended — copy to director, when. — A corporation may amend its articles of incorporation from time to time in the manner provided in chapter 355 and shall file a duly certified copy of its certificate of amendment with the director of the department of commerce and insurance within twenty days after the issuance of the certificate of amendment by the secretary of state. Upon the issuance of the certificate of amendment by the secretary of state, the amendment shall become effective and the articles of incorporation shall be deemed to be amended accordingly. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 12, A.L. 1998 S.B. 680, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al., A.L. 2000 S.B. 896, A.L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 354.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.070 - Certificate of authority automatically extended, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983, 2 histories   354.070. Certificate of authority automatically extended, when. — When the annual statement of a corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 is filed and all fees due from the corporation are tendered, the corporation's certificate of authority to do business in this state shall automatically be extended pending formal renewal by the director, or until such time as he should refuse to renew the certificate. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 13, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.075 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.075 - Capital required to do business.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.075. Capital required to do business. — No corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 shall be permitted to do business in this state unless it shall have a paid-in capital or guaranty fund of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the reserves required in sections 354.010 to 354.380. The surplus and guaranty fund shall be placed and held on joint deposit with the director for the protection of all subscribers, members and beneficiaries. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 14, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.080 - Reserves required, how computed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973, 2 histories   354.080. Reserves required, how computed. — The corporation shall maintain at all times reserves adequate to provide the hospital, medical-surgical and other health services made available to its members and beneficiaries and to meet all its costs and expenses. The reserves shall not be less than an amount equal to two months of benefit payments and administrative expenses, based on an average of the preceding twelve months, or if the reserves are not equal to such average, they must have been increased during the preceding twelve months by an amount equal to one percent of the gross dues income during such period. The determination of minimum reserves hereunder shall be subject, as to amounts payable to participating providers of the health services, to any right of the corporation to prorate the amounts under the terms of its health service contracts with providers. The director may decrease or suspend the requirements of this section if he finds that such action would be in the best interest of the members of the corporation. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 15)
MO Rev Stat § 354.085 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.085 - Membership contract forms, approval by director, when — time for filing — time for disapproval.

Effective - 28 Aug 2003   354.085. Membership contract forms, approval by director, when — time for filing — time for disapproval. — No corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 shall deliver or issue for delivery in this state a form of membership contract, or any endorsement or rider thereto, until a copy of the form shall have been approved by the director. The director shall not approve any policy forms which are not in compliance with the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 of this state, or which contain any provision which is deceptive, ambiguous or misleading, or which do not contain such words, phraseology, conditions and provisions which are specific, certain and reasonably adequate to meet needed requirements for the protection of those insured. If a policy form is disapproved, the reasons therefor shall be stated in writing; a hearing shall be granted upon such disapproval, if so requested; provided, however, that such hearing shall be held no sooner than fifteen days following the request. The failure of the director of the department of commerce and insurance to take action approving or disapproving a submitted policy form within forty-five days from the date of filing shall be deemed an approval thereof. The director shall not disapprove any deemed policy form for a period of twelve months thereafter. If at any time during that twelve-month period the director determines that any provision of the deemed policy form is contrary to state law, the director shall notify the health services corporation of the specific provision that is contrary to state law, and any specific statute to which the provision is contrary to, and request that the health services corporation file, within thirty days of receipt of the request, an amendment form that modifies the provision to conform to state law. Upon approval of the amendment form by the director, the health services corporation shall issue a copy of the amendment to each individual and entity to which the deemed policy form was previously issued and shall attach a copy of the amendment to the deemed policy form when it is subsequently issued. Such amendment shall have the force and effect as if the amendment was in the original filing or policy. The director of the department of commerce and insurance shall have authority to make such reasonable rules and regulations concerning the filing and submission of such policy forms as are necessary, proper or advisable. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 16, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127, A.L. 2003 H.B. 121)
MO Rev Stat § 354.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.090 - Health services corporation contracts, purposes, parties to.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983, 2 histories   354.090. Health services corporation contracts, purposes, parties to. — 1. A corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 may enter into contracts for the rendering of hospital services, medical-surgical services and other health services on behalf of its members or beneficiaries with hospitals maintained by any governmental body or agency, or maintained by a nonprofit corporation organized for hospital purposes, or with other corporations, organizations, associations, partnerships or individuals furnishing hospital services, medical-surgical services, or other health services. Any health services corporation may enter into agreements or contracts with other organizations or corporations licensed to do business in this state or in any other state for the transfer of members or beneficiaries, for the reciprocal joint provisions of benefits to the members or beneficiaries of the corporation and of such other organizations or corporations, or for such other joint undertakings as the corporation's board of directors may approve.  2. In lieu of direct payment from an insured for goods or services furnished, a pharmacist may take an assignment of such insured's right to reimbursement for those goods or services provided to a member of a health services corporation. No health services corporation may refuse to pay the pharmacist any payment due the insured under the terms of the policy or contract. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 17, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.095 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.095 - Limitation of membership and benefits — certain benefits to be provided, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.095. Limitation of membership and benefits — certain benefits to be provided, when. — 1. A corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 may, in the discretion of its board of directors, limit or define the classes of persons who shall be eligible to become members or beneficiaries, limit and define the benefits which it will furnish, and may define such benefits as it undertakes to furnish into classes or kinds. It may make available to its members or beneficiaries such health services, or reimbursement therefor, as the board of directors of any such corporation may approve; if maternity benefits are provided to any members of any plan, then maternity benefits shall be provided to any member of such plan without discrimination as to whether the member is married or unmarried, and if maternity benefits are provided to a beneficiary of any plan, then maternity benefits shall be provided to such beneficiary of such plan without discrimination as to whether the beneficiary is married or unmarried.  2. If an ambulatory surgical facility as defined by subdivision (2)* of section 197.200, has received a certificate of need as provided in chapter 197, a health services corporation shall provide benefits to the facility on the same basis as it does to all other health care facilities, whether contracting members or noncontracting members. A health services corporation shall use the same standards that are applied to any other health care facility within the same health services area in defining the benefits that the corporation will furnish to the ambulatory surgical facility, the classes to which such benefits will be furnished, and the amount of reimbursement. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 18, A.L. 1981 S.B. 185, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)  *In 2017 statutory reference to subdivision "(1)" changed to "(2)" in accordance with section 3.060.
MO Rev Stat § 354.105 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.105 - Annual report required, contents of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.105. Annual report required, contents of. — All corporations subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 shall make and file annually with the director on or before the first day of March of each year a report under oath upon a form to be prescribed by the director setting forth:  (1) The name of the corporation;  (2) The address of its registered office in this state and the name of its registered agent at such address;  (3) The names and addresses of its directors and officers;  (4) A brief statement of the character of the affairs which the corporation is actually conducting;  (5) The amount of all dues or fees collected in this state or from residents thereof with respect to members or beneficiaries in the last calendar year, the amounts actually paid during such year for health services for the members or beneficiaries, and the amounts placed in reserves;  (6) A financial report for the most recent fiscal year of the corporation, prepared by an officer of the corporation or by a certified public accountant;  (7) A statement of any other facts or information concerning the affairs of the health services corporation which may be required reasonably by the director. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 20, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.115 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.115 - Member's grievance, how and where filed — director may investigate, court action not barred.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   354.115. Member's grievance, how and where filed — director may investigate, court action not barred. — Any individual member of a corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 who believes himself to be aggrieved by any act or omission of such corporation or its officers, directors, or employees may file a statement in writing of his grievance in the office of the director, and the director may make such investigation of such grievance as he deems appropriate. No such investigation by the director shall act as a bar to any suit in a court of competent jurisdiction instituted by any such member, or as a bar to any defense thereto by the corporation involved. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 22, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127)
MO Rev Stat § 354.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships|Chapter 354 - Health Services Corporations — Health Maintenance Organizations — Prepaid Dental Plans|Section 354.120 - Rules and regulations by director authorized — procedure, review.

Effective - 28 Aug 1995, 2 histories   354.120. Rules and regulations by director authorized — procedure, review. — The director may promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 as he shall deem necessary for its proper administration, pursuant to the provisions of this section and chapter 536. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. ­­-------- (L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 23, A.L. 1983 H.B. 127, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)