Iowa § 514.1 Applicability — definitions

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§ 514.1 — Applicability — definitions

Iowa § 514.1

Title XIIICOMMERCE

Ch. 514NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS

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Iowa Code § 514.1 (2026).

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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

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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 health and human services has entered into a contract
with a firm operating under this chapter.