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...er 1751. of the Revised Code requires a health insuring corporation to employ or contract with, or prohibits a health insuring corporation from employing or contracting with, any category of provider for the provision of basic or supplemental health care services, which health care services are within the recognized scope of practice of that category of provider.

...Every individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement that provides basic health care services but does not allow direct access to obstetricians or gynecologists shall permit a female enrollee to obtain covered obstetric and gynecological services from a participating obstetrician or gynecologist without obtaining a referral from the enrollee's primary care provider. No individual or g...

...(A) A health insuring corporation that does not allow direct access to all specialists shall establish and implement a procedure by which an enrollee may receive a standing referral to a specialist. The procedure shall provide for a standing referral to a specialist if a primary care provider determines in consultation with a specialist that an enrollee needs continuing care from a specialist. The referral shall be m...

...A health insuring corporation or utilization review organization that authorizes a proposed admission, treatment, or health care service by a participating provider based upon the complete and accurate submission of all necessary information relative to an eligible enrollee shall not retroactively deny this authorization if the provider renders the health care service in good faith and pursuant to the authorization a...

...f a policy, contract, or agreement of a health insuring corporation uses a restricted formulary of prescription drugs, the health insuring corporation shall do both of the following: (1) Develop such a formulary in consultation with and with the approval of a pharmacy and therapeutics committee, a majority of the members of which are physicians or advanced practice registered nurses affiliated with the health insur...

...A health insuring corporation that provides basic health care services shall establish or use an internal technology assessment process for assessing whether a drug, device, protocol, procedure, or other therapy is proven to be safe and efficacious for a particular indication or condition when compared to alternative therapies, or whether it remains experimental or investigational. The health insuring corporation's i...

... layperson with an average knowledge of health and medicine could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in any of the following: (a) Placing the health of the individual or, with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of the woman or her unborn child, in serious jeopardy; (b) Serious impairment to bodily functions; (c) Serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part. (2) "Emergen...

...otherwise affect the application to any health care plan of those provisions of Title XVII or XXXIX of the Revised Code that would otherwise apply.

...vel RBC" means the product of 2.0 and a health insuring corporation's authorized control level RBC. (D) "Corrective order" means an order issued by the superintendent of insurance specifying corrective actions that the superintendent determines are required. (E) "Domestic health insuring corporation" means a health insuring corporation domiciled in this state. (F) "Foreign health insuring corporation" means a h...

...(A) Each domestic health insuring corporation shall, on or prior to the first day of March of every year, prepare and submit to the superintendent of insurance a report on its RBC levels as of the end of the calendar year just ended, in a form and containing such information as is required by the RBC instructions. In addition, a domestic health insuring corporation shall file its RBC report as follows: (1) With the ...

...s any of the following events: (1) A health insuring corporation's filing of an RBC report that indicates that the health insuring corporation's total adjusted capital is greater than or equal to its regulatory action level RBC but less than its company action level RBC; (2) A health insuring corporation's filing of an RBC report that indicates that the health insuring corporation's total adjusted capital is...

...: (1) The filing of an RBC report by a health insuring corporation that indicates that the health insuring corporation's total adjusted capital is greater than or equal to its authorized control level RBC but less than its regulatory action level RBC; (2) The notification by the superintendent of insurance to a health insuring corporation of an adjustment to the health insuring corporation's RBC report, which adjus...

...: (1) The filing of an RBC report by a health insuring corporation that indicates that the health insuring corporation's total adjusted capital is greater than or equal to its mandatory control level RBC but less than its authorized control level RBC; (2) The notification by the superintendent of insurance to a health insuring corporation of an adjustment to the health insuring corporation's RBC report, which adjus...

...: (1) The filing of an RBC report by a health insuring corporation that indicates that the health insuring corporation's total adjusted capital is less than its mandatory control level RBC; (2) The notification by the superintendent of insurance to a health insuring corporation of an adjustment to the health insuring corporation's RBC report, which adjusted RBC report shows the health insuring corporation's total a...

...(A) A health insuring corporation has the right to a confidential hearing upon receiving any of the following from the superintendent of insurance: (1) An adjusted RBC report; (2) Notification that the health insuring corporation's RBC plan or revised RBC plan is unsatisfactory and a statement that the notification constitutes a regulatory action level event for the health insuring corporation; (3) Notification th...

...ion, and orders. (D) A comparison of a health insuring corporation's total adjusted capital to any of its RBC levels shall not be used to rank health insuring corporations. (E) RBC instructions, RBC reports, adjusted RBC reports, RBC plans, and revised RBC plans shall not be used by the superintendent for ratemaking, considered or introduced as evidence in any rate proceeding, or used by the superintendent to calcu...

...(A) Each foreign health insuring corporation shall submit to the superintendent of insurance, upon receiving the superintendent's written request, an RBC report for the calendar year just ended. The health insuring corporation shall submit the RBC report to the superintendent no later than the later of: (1) The date a domestic health insuring corporation would be required to file an RBC report under section 1753.32 ...

...There shall be no liability on the part of, and no cause of action shall arise against, the superintendent of insurance, or the department of insurance, its employees, or its agents, for any action taken in their performance of the powers and duties under sections 1753.31 to 1753.43 of the Revised Code.

...herwise provided, all notices sent to a health insuring corporation by the superintendent of insurance that may result in regulatory action under sections 1753.31 to 1753.43 of the Revised Code shall be effective upon dispatch if transmitted by registered or certified mail. Any other notice transmitted shall be effective upon the health insuring corporation's receipt of the notice.

...nt of insurance may exempt any domestic health insuring corporation from the application of sections 1753.31 to 1753.43 of the Revised Code, if the health insuring corporation meets all of the following requirements: (A) The health insuring corporation writes direct business in this state only. (B) The health insuring corporation assumes no reinsurance in excess of five per cent of direct premium written. (C) The ...

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as are reasonably necessary for the implementation and operation of sections 1753.31 to 1753.43 of the Revised Code.

...r. (B) "Capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions" means the functional ability to understand information about the risks of, benefits of, and alternatives to the proposed mental health treatment, to rationally use that information, to appreciate how that information applies to the declarant, and to express a choice about the proposed treatment. (C) "Declarant" means an adult who has executed a dec...

...o has the capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions voluntarily may execute at any time a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of mental health treatment. The declaration shall be signed at the end by the declarant, state the date of its execution, and either be witnessed or be acknowledged in accordance with section 2135.06 of the Revised Code. The declarati...

... this section, a declaration for mental health treatment remains valid and effective for three years after its execution unless it is properly revoked. A declaration for mental health treatment may become operative as provided in section 2135.04 of the Revised Code. If the declaration becomes operative, the authority of a proxy named in the declaration continues in effect as long as the declaration designating the pr...

...declaration is communicated to a mental health treatment provider of the declarant. (2) The designated physician or a psychiatrist, and one other mental health treatment provider, who examine the declarant determine that the declarant does not have the capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions. At least one of the two persons who make this determination shall not currently be involved in the declarant...