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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="14-206" title_number="14" title_name="Entities That Act as Health Insurers" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Preferred Provider Organizations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies to an employee benefit plan whose benefit provisions are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) or another federal law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On request of the Commissioner, each insurer, employer, third party administrator, or other entity that issues, delivers, administers, or offers a preferred provider insurance policy in the State shall file with the Commissioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a written summary description and a prototype copy of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the preferred provider insurance policy;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>all attendant provider service contracts;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>any other related contracts; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>any amendments to the documents listed in items (i) through (iii) of this item; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other related documents or information that the Commissioner requires.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner may impose a penalty not exceeding $1,000 for each failure to comply with this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
