(a) The legislature finds that permitting competing physicians to engage in collective negotiation of certain terms and conditions of contracts with a health benefit plan will benefit competition, so long as the physicians do not engage in an express or implied threat of retaliatory collective action, including boycotts or strikes. (b) The legislature finds that […]
(a) Competing physicians may meet and communicate in order to collectively negotiate with a health benefit plan concerning any of the contract terms and conditions described in this subsection, but may not negotiate the exclusion of providers who are non-physicians from direct reimbursement by a health benefit plan, and may not negotiate the setting in […]
(a) The attorney general shall adopt regulations that establish the amount and manner of payment of a registration fee for authorized third parties. The attorney general shall establish the fee level so that the total amount of fees collected from authorized third parties approximately equals the actual regulatory costs for the oversight of joint negotiations […]
The attorney general may adopt regulations necessary to implement this chapter.
In this chapter, (1) “authorized third party” means a person authorized by the physicians to negotiate on their behalf with a health benefit plan under this chapter; (2) “health benefit plan” means a health care insurer as defined in AS 21.54.500, but does not include a self-insured health benefit plan.
