§ 56-51-138. Officers’ and Employees’ Fidelity Bond
A prepaid limited health service organization must maintain in force a fidelity bond in its own name on its officers and employees, in an amount not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or in any other amount prescribed by the department. Except as otherwise provided by this subsection (a), the bond must be issued by […]
§ 56-51-139. Suspension or Revocation of Certificate of Authority — Suspension of Enrollment of New Subscribers — Terms of Suspension
The department may suspend the authority of a prepaid limited health service organization to enroll new subscribers, through its contract with a health maintenance organization or with a federal or state agency, or revoke any certificate issued to a prepaid limited health service organization or order compliance within thirty (30) days, if it finds that […]
§ 56-51-140. Administrative Penalty in Lieu of Suspension or Revocation
In lieu of suspending or revoking a certificate of authority, or when no penalty is specifically provided, whenever any prepaid limited health service organization or other person, corporation, partnership, or entity subject to this act has been found to have violated any provision of this chapter, the department may: Issue and cause to be served […]
§ 56-51-141. Injunction
In addition to the penalties and other enforcement provisions of this chapter, the department is vested with the power to seek both temporary and permanent injunctive relief when: A prepaid limited health service organization is being operated by any person or entity without a certificate of authority; Any person, entity, or prepaid limited health service […]
§ 56-51-142. Payment of Judgment by Prepaid Limited Health Service Organization
Except as otherwise ordered by the court or as mutually agreed upon by the parties, every judgment or decree entered in any court against any prepaid limited health service organization for the recovery of money must be fully satisfied within sixty (60) days after the entry of the judgment or decree, or, in the case […]
§ 56-51-143. Levy Upon Deposit Limited
No judgment creditor or other claimant, other than the department, of a prepaid limited health service organization shall have the right to levy upon any of the assets or securities held in this state as a deposit under § 56-51-137.
§ 56-51-144. Delinquency or Supervision
A delinquency proceeding under chapter 9, part 2, 3, or 4 of this title, or supervision by the department pursuant to chapter 9, part 5 of this title constitutes the sole and exclusive means of supervising, liquidating, reorganizing, rehabilitating, or conserving a prepaid limited health service organization. No prepaid limited health service organization is subject […]
§ 56-51-145. Fees
Every prepaid limited health service organization subject to this chapter must pay to the department the following fees: For filing an application for a certificate of authority: five hundred dollars ($500); For filing an amendment to organization documents that require approval: fifty dollars ($50.00); Each annual report: one hundred dollars ($100); and For each renewal […]
§ 56-51-146. Investigative Power of Department
The department has the power to examine and investigate the affairs of every person, entity, or prepaid limited health service organization in order to determine whether the person, entity, or prepaid limited health service organization is operating in accordance with this chapter, or has been or is engaged in any unfair method of competition or […]
§ 56-51-147. Unfair Methods of Competition, Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices Defined
For the purposes of defining unfair methods of competition, unfair or deceptive acts or practices, § 56-8-104 applies to a prepaid limited health service organization.