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...(A) Whoever violates section 1729.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for each offense. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 1729.68 or commits an unfair marketing practice as defined in section 1729.69 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars for each offense.

...702. of the Revised Code or the similar laws of another state. (I) "Emergency health services" means those health care services that must be available on a seven-days-per-week, twenty-four-hours-per-day basis in order to prevent jeopardy to an enrollee's health status that would occur if such services were not received as soon as possible, and includes, where appropriate, provisions for transportation and indemnity...

...(A) Notwithstanding any law in this state to the contrary, any corporation, as defined in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code, may apply to the superintendent of insurance for a certificate of authority to establish and operate a health insuring corporation. If the corporation applying for a certificate of authority is a foreign corporation domiciled in a state without laws similar to those of this chapter, the...

...ame and address of the applicant's Ohio statutory agent for service of process, notice, or demand; (22) Copies of all documents the applicant filed with the secretary of state; (23) The location of those books and records of the applicant that must be maintained, which books and records shall be maintained in Ohio if the applicant is a domestic corporation, and which may be maintained either in the applicant's...

...(A) Except as provided by division (D) of this section, upon the receipt by the superintendent of insurance of a complete application for a certificate 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 acc...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall issue 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 secti...

...e functions not otherwise prohibited by law.

...Any trustee, 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.

...e construed to violate any provision of law relating to solicitation or advertising by health professionals. (D) Any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter shall not be considered to be practicing medicine.

... insuring corporation and it shall be unlawful for the health insuring corporation to use such evidence of coverage or amendment. At any time, the superintendent, upon at least thirty days' written notice to a health insuring corporation, may withdraw an approval, deemed or actual, of any evidence of coverage or amendment on any of the grounds stated in this section. Such disapproval shall be effected by a written or...

...evised Code, to the extent that federal law supersedes, preempts, prohibits, or otherwise precludes the application of this section to the plan and its administrators. (B) A standardized identification card or an electronic technology issued or required to be used as provided in division (A)(1) of this section shall contain uniform prescription drug information in accordance with either division (B)(1) or (2) o...

...sapproval, and it shall thereafter be unlawful for the health insuring corporation to use the contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment. (2) No contractual periodic prepayment for group policies for health care services shall be used until the contractual periodic prepayment has been filed with the superintendent. The filing shall be accompanied by an actuarial certification in the form pr...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, 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 ...

...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.

... otherwise required by state or federal law, no health insuring corporation, or health care facility or provider through which the health insuring corporation has made arrangements to provide health care services, shall discriminate against any individual with regard to enrollment, disenrollment, or the quality of health care services rendered, on the basis of the individual's race, color, sex, age, religion, militar...

...deral, and international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, with local, state, and federal prosecutors, and with the national association of insurance commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries, provided that the recipient agrees to maintain the confidential or privileged status of the confidential or privileged document or information and has authority to do so. (3) Nothing in this section shall prohib...

...(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...

...(A) A peer 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 r...

...(A) Except as provided in division (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 ...

...(A) For purposes of this section, real estate 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 incom...

...(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...

...ls for the preparation and reporting of statutory financial statements and other financial information set forth in section 1751.47 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted under that section. (D) All health insuring corporations must comply with this section, as amended, for calendar year 2004 and each calendar year thereafter.

...(A) Any changes in a health insuring corporation's solicitation document shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance thirty days prior to use for informational purposes, and shall comply with the requirements of this section. If the superintendent finds that any solicitation document fails to comply with the requirements of this section, the superintendent may disapprove any solicitation document or re...

...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...