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...(A) Each health insuring corporation shall pay to the superintendent of insurance the following fees: (1) For filing an application for a certificate of authority, fifteen hundred dollars; (2) For filing a request for a service area expansion under section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, three hundred dollars; (3) For filing a major modification under section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, three hundred dollars; (4) F...

...(A) In lieu of the suspension or revocation of a certificate of authority under section 1751.35 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of insurance, pursuant to an adjudication hearing initiated and conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, or by consent of the health insuring corporation without an adjudication hearing, may levy an administrative penalty. The administrative penalty shall ...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may contract with qualified persons to make recommendations concerning the determinations required to be made by the superintendent relative to an expansion of a service area pursuant to division (C) of section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, an application for a certificate of authority pursuant to sections 1751.04 and 1751.05 of the Revised Code, a contractual periodic prepaym...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall adopt the forms, instructions, and manuals prescribed by the national association of insurance commissioners for the preparation and filing of statutory financial statements and other financial information. However, the superintendent may by rule adopt modifications to such prescribed forms, instructions, and manuals as the superintendent considers to be necessary. (B) For p...

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. These rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...If a health care plan of a health insuring corporation covers health care services that may be legally performed by a class of providers referred to in section 3923.23 or 3923.231 of the Revised Code but would restrict an enrollee's ability to receive these health care services from members of that class in any manner that differs from an enrollee's ability under the health care plan to receive these health care serv...

...(A) All applications, filings, and reports required under this chapter shall be treated as public documents after the date the application, filing, or report becomes effective, regardless of the application of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act set forth in sections 1333.61 to 1333.69 of the Revised Code. (B) Any data or information pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, or health of any enrollee or applicant for enroll...

...If an enrollee signs a medical information release upon the request of a health insuring corporation, the release shall clearly explain what information may be disclosed under the terms of the release. If a health insuring corporation utilizes this release to request medical information from a health care facility or provider, the health insuring corporation shall provide a copy of the enrollee's release to the healt...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Group contract" means a group health insuring corporation contract covering employees that meets either of the following conditions: (a) The contract was issued by an entity that, on June 4, 1997, holds a certificate of authority or license to operate under Chapter 1738. or 1742. of the Revised Code, and covers an employee at the time the employee's employment is terminated. ...

...uniformed services as defined in Public Law 99-661, 100 Stat. 3898 (1986), 10 U.S.C.A. 1072. (2) The period of either eighteen months provided under division (B) of this section or thirty-six months provided under division (C) of this section expires. (3) The eligible person fails to make a timely payment of a required contribution, in which case the coverage ceases at the end of the period of coverage for which co...

...A health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement shall not be construed to exclude illness or injury upon the ground that the subscriber might have elected to have such illness or injury covered by workers' compensation under Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code unless the policy, contract, or agreement clearly excludes work or occupational related illness or injury, or the policy, contract, or agreement, or...

...(A) No individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state, if the policy, contract, or agreement excludes or reduces the benefits payable to or on behalf of an insured because benefits are also payable or have been paid under a supplemental sickness and accident insurance policy to which all of the following apply: (1) The ...

...(A) The following conditions apply to all individual health insuring corporation contracts: (1) Except as provided in section 2742(b) to (e) of the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1955, 42 U.S.C.A. 300gg-42, as amended, a health insuring corporation that provides individual coverage to an individual shall renew or continue in force such coverage at the op...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 2721 of the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1955, 42 U.S.C.A. 300gg-21, as amended, the following conditions apply to all group health insuring corporation contracts that are sold in connection with an employment-related group health care plan and that are not subject to section 3924.03 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) E...

...No individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement that makes family coverage available may be delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state, unless the policy, contract, or agreement covers adopted children of the subscriber on the same basis as other dependents. The coverage required by this section is subject to the requirements and restrictions set forth in section 3924....

...(A) Except as provided for in divisions (E) and (F) of this section, every provider or health care facility that contracts with a health insuring corporation to provide health care services to the health insuring corporation's enrollees or subscribers shall seek compensation for covered services solely from the health insuring corporation and not, under any circumstances, from the enrollees or subscribers, exce...

...(A) Each individual or group evidence of coverage that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed by a health insuring corporation in this state, and that makes coverage available for family members of a subscriber, also shall provide that coverage applicable to children is payable from the moment of birth with respect to a newly born child of the subscriber or subscriber's spouse. (B) Coverage for a newly born c...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Screening mammography" means a radiologic examination utilized to detect unsuspected breast cancer at an early stage in an asymptomatic woman and includes the x-ray examination of the breast using equipment that is dedicated specifically for mammography, including, but not limited to, the x-ray tube, filter, compression device, screens, film, and cassettes, and that has an average ...

...Sections 3923.41 to 3923.48 of the Revised Code apply to every health insuring corporation that offers long-term care and that holds a certificate of authority under this chapter.

...(A) As used in this section, "genetic screening or testing" means a laboratory test of a person's genes or chromosomes for genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes, including carrier status, that are linked to physical or mental disorders or impairments, or that indicate a susceptibility to illness, disease, or other disorders, whether physical or mental, which test is a direct test for genotypes, mutations, or c...

...and drug administration; (3) Alter any law with regard to provisions limiting the coverage of drugs that have not been approved by the United States food and drug administration; (4) Require reimbursement or coverage for any drug not included in the drug formulary or list of covered drugs specified in a health insuring corporation contract; (5) Prohibit a health insuring corporation from limiting or excluding...

...(A) Each individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state that provides maternity benefits shall provide coverage of inpatient care and follow-up care for a mother and her newborn as follows: (1) The policy, contract, or agreement shall cover a minimum of forty-eight hours of inpatient care following a normal vaginal delivery and ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cost-sharing" means the cost to an enrollee under an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement according to any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense requirements imposed by the policy, contract, or agreement. (2) "Drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Medication ...

...(A) As used in this section, "cost sharing" means the cost to an individual insured under an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement according to any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense requirements imposed by the policy, contract, or agreement. (B) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code and subject to division (D) of ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Benzodiazepine" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Chronic pain" has the same meaning as in section 4731.052 of the Revised Code. (3) "Hospice care program" and "hospice patient" have the same meanings as in section 3712.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Opioid analgesic" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Pre...