GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 33. INSURANCE |
Chapter 20B. ESSENTIAL RURAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ACCESS |
Section 33-20B-3.1. Health maintenance organizations' expansion into rural areas
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- When reviewing a health maintenance organization's request to originate or expand an area of service into a rural area, the commissioner of community health shall consider whether the health maintenance organization has demonstrated its willingness to grant reasonable consideration to essential rural health care providers in the negotiating and contracting process.
Code 1981, § 33-20B-3.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 439, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-6/HB 228.