California Insurance Code

§ 10820

INS § 10820 Effective Jan 1, 2001Div. 2 · Part 2 · Ch. 9 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)The commissioner shall regulate the establishment and conduct of purchasing alliances as set forth in this chapter.

(b)No person or entity may market, sell, offer, or contract for a package of one or more health benefit plans underwritten by two or more carriers to two or more employers or small employers or their eligible employees within a purchasing alliance without first being registered by the commissioner pursuant to this chapter. This subdivision does not apply to entities licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care as health care service plans or entities licensed by the Department of Insurance as disability insurers except that no licensed health care service plan or licensed disability insurer may be registered with the commissioner as a purchasing alliance. This chapter does not apply to any entity exempt pursuant to Section 1349.2 of the Health and Safety Code.

(c)A person or entity not registered by the commissioner as a purchasing alliance and engaged in the purchase, sale, marketing or distribution of health insurance or health care benefit plans shall not hold itself out as an alliance, health insurance purchasing alliance, purchasing alliance, health alliance, health insurance purchasing cooperative, or purchasing cooperative, or otherwise use a confusingly similar name.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 857, Sec. 71. Effective January 1, 2001.