31A-34-103 - Definitions.
31A-34-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Alliance," "health insurance purchasing alliance," or "health insurance purchasingco-operative" means a nonrisk bearing nonprofit corporation or trust which makes healthinsurance available to its members and enrollees from multiple unaffiliated insurers through theuse of coordinated actuarial models, coordinated underwriting, or coordinated marketingmethodologies.
(2) "Board" means a health insurance purchasing alliance's board of directors or trustees.
(3) "Contracted insurer" means an insurer that contracts with a health insurancepurchasing alliance to provide coverage to enrollees under a health benefit plan.
(4) "Enrollee" means an individual who is covered in a health benefit plan made availablethrough a health insurance purchasing alliance and offered by a contracted insurer.
(5) "Health insurance purchasing association" means a nonprofit corporation organizedpursuant to Section 31A-34-105 by employers for the purpose of jointly purchasing healthinsurance.
(6) "Member" means a person who purchases health insurance through a health insurancepurchasing alliance.
Enacted by Chapter 143, 1996 General Session