§ 40-3232 — Insolvent health maintenance organization; allocation of insureds to other health maintenance organizations, when; eligibility for Kansas uninsurable health insurance plan act, when

(a) In the event of an insolvency of a health maintenance organization, the commissioner may order that all other carriers that participated in the enrollment process with the insolvent health maintenance organization at a group's last regular enrollment period shall offer the group's enrollees of the insolvent health maintenance organization a 30-day enrollment period commencing upon the date of insolvency. Under such order each carrier shall offer to each enrollee of the insolvent health maintenance organization the same coverages that such insolvent health maintenance organization had offered to each enrollee of the group at such group's last regular enrollment period at rates determined in accordance with the successor health maintenance organization's existing rating methodology.
(b) Any individual or enrollee who has health insurance coverage involuntarily terminated because of the insolvency of such individual's or enrollee's health maintenance organization shall be treated as the equivalent of a federally defined eligible individual for the purposes of the Kansas uninsurable health insurance plan act, K.S.A. 40-2117 et seq. and amendments thereto.

Legislative History

L. 2000, ch. 147, § 33; July 1.