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... accompanied by appropriate supporting data; (11) A financial plan which provides a three-year projection of operating results, including the projected expenses, income, and sources of working capital; (12) The enrollee complaint procedure to be utilized as required under section 1751.19 of the Revised Code; (13) A description of the procedures and programs to be implemented on an ongoing basis to assure the ...

... of authority to establish or operate a health insuring corporation, which application sets forth or is accompanied by the information and documents required by division (A) of section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, the superintendent shall review the application and accompanying documents and make findings as to whether the applicant for a certificate of authority has done all of the following with respect to any basi...

...or deny a certificate of authority to a health insuring corporation filing an application pursuant to section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, one hundred thirty-five days from the superintendent's receipt of a complete application and accompanying documents. (B) A certificate of authority shall be issued upon payment of the application fee prescribed in section 1751.44 of the Revised Code if the superinten...

...rial or administrative services, or for data processing, actuarial analysis, billing services, or any other services authorized by the superintendent of insurance. However, a health insuring corporation shall not enter into a contract for any of the services listed in this division with an insurance company that is not authorized to engage in the business of insurance in this state. (E) Accept from governmental agen...

...ee, director, officer, or employee of a health insuring corporation who receives, collects, disburses, or invests funds in connection with the activities of the health insuring corporation shall be responsible for such funds in a fiduciary relationship to the corporation.

...sed Code shall not be applicable to any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter. This division shall not apply to an insurer licensed and regulated pursuant to Title XXXIX of the Revised Code except with respect to its health insuring corporation activities authorized and regulated pursuant to this chapter. (B) For the purpose of clarifying jurisdiction under the "Bankruptcy...

...(A) Every subscriber of a health insuring corporation is entitled to an evidence of coverage for the health care plan under which health care benefits are provided. (B) Every subscriber of a health insuring corporation that offers basic health care services is entitled to an identification card or similar document that specifies the health insuring corporation's name as stated in its articles of incorporation, and...

...lies to both of the following: (a) A health insuring corporation that issues or requires the use of a standardized identification card or an electronic technology for submission and routing of prescription drug claims pursuant to a policy, contract, or agreement for health care services; (b) A person or entity that a health insuring corporation contracts with to issue a standardized identification card or an...

...or nongroup and conversion policies for health care services, or any amendment to them, may be used by any health insuring corporation at any time until the contractual periodic prepayment and premium rate, or amendment, have been filed with the superintendent of insurance, and shall not be effective until the expiration of sixty days after their filing unless the superintendent sooner gives approval. The filin...

...(A)(1)(a) A health insuring corporation shall, either directly or indirectly, enter into contracts for the provision of health care services with a sufficient number and types of providers and health care facilities to ensure that all covered health care services will be accessible to enrollees from a contracted provider or health care facility. (b) A health insuring corporation shall not refuse to contract w...

... any policy, contract, or agreement for health care services authorized by this chapter that is issued, delivered, or renewed in this state and that provides that coverage of an unmarried dependent child will terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent children specified in the policy, contract, or agreement, shall also provide in substance both of the following: (1) Once an unmarried child has att...

...A health insuring corporation shall provide coverage, in accordance with the terms of the contract, for a subscriber's dependent children living outside the health insuring corporation's approved service area if a court order requires the subscriber to provide health care coverage to the dependent children.

...(A)(1) No health insuring corporation shall cancel or fail to renew the coverage of a subscriber or enrollee because of any health status-related factor in relation to the subscriber or enrollee, the subscriber's or enrollee's requirements for health care services, or for any other reason designated under rules adopted by the superintendent of insurance. (2) Unless otherwise required by state or federal law, no hea...

...(A) A health insuring corporation shall establish and maintain a complaint system that has been approved by the superintendent of insurance to provide adequate and reasonable procedures for the expeditious resolution of written complaints initiated by subscribers or enrollees concerning any matter relating to services provided, directly or indirectly, by the health insuring corporation, including, but not limited to,...

...(A) No health insuring corporation, or agent, employee, or representative of a health insuring corporation, shall use any advertisement or solicitation document, or shall engage in any activity, that is unfair, untrue, misleading, or deceptive. (B) No health insuring corporation shall use a name that is deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety corporation doing business in thi...

...review committee of a hospital or other health care facility or provider, or of an intermediary organization or health delivery network, with which a health insuring corporation has a contract for health care services may provide to a peer review committee of the health insuring corporation any information, documents, testimony, or other records relating to any matter that is the subject of evaluation or review by th...

...on (B) of this section, the funds of a health insuring corporation shall be invested only in securities or other investments or assets that constitute permissible investments under section 1751.26 or 3925.08 of the Revised Code. (B) A health insuring corporation may seek permission from the superintendent of insurance to invest funds under Chapter 3906. of the Revised Code and may invest funds under that chap...

...tate used for "the accommodation of the health insuring corporation's business operations" includes the health insuring corporation's home office, branch office, medical facilities, and field office operations. (B) No health insuring corporation shall purchase, hold, or convey real estate, or any interest in real estate, to be used as an investment for the production of income, to be developed for the production of ...

...(A) Each health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority to operate in this state shall have deposited securities with the superintendent of insurance or an approved custodian in the amount required by this division. (1) Each health insuring corporation authorized to provide basic health care services shall maintain a deposit of not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. (2) Each health insuri...

...(A) Each health insuring corporation that provides coverage to medicaid recipients shall post a performance bond in the amount of three million dollars as security to fulfill the obligations of the health insuring corporation to pay claims of contracted providers for covered health care services provided to medicaid recipients. The bond shall be payable to the department of insurance in the event that the healt...

...(A)(1) Every health insuring corporation authorized to provide basic health care services, which health insuring corporation is not a provider sponsored organization, shall maintain total admitted assets equal to at least one hundred ten per cent of the liabilities of the corporation. However, at no time shall the corporation's net worth be less than one million two hundred thousand dollars. (2) Every health insuri...

... all information necessary to enable a consumer to make an informed choice as to whether or not to enroll in the health insuring corporation. The information shall include a specific description of the health care services to be available and the approximate number and type of full-time equivalent medical practitioners. The information shall be presented in the solicitation document in a manner that is clear, ...

...Each health insuring corporation, annually, on or before the first day of March, shall file a report with the superintendent of insurance, covering the preceding calendar year. The report shall be verified by an officer of the health insuring corporation, shall be in the form the superintendent prescribes, and shall include: (A) A financial statement of the health insuring corporation, including its balance sheet...

...Each health insuring corporation, annually, on or before the first day of June, shall file with the superintendent of insurance an audit report certified by an independent certified public accountant covering the preceding calendar year. The report shall be verified by an officer of the health insuring corporation and shall be in the form prescribed by the superintendent by rule.

...(A) Each health insuring corporation shall provide to its subscribers a description of the health insuring corporation, its method of operation, its service area, its most recent provider list, its complaint procedure established pursuant to section 1751.19 of the Revised Code, and a description of its utilization review, internal review, and external review processes established under sections 1751.77 to 1751....