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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="15-141" title_number="15" title_name="Health Insurance" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Carrier” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an insurer;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a nonprofit health service plan;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a health maintenance organization;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a dental plan organization; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>any other person that provides health benefit plans subject to regulation by the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Enrollee” means a person entitled to health care benefits from a carrier.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner shall develop and make available a standardized form for an enrollee to use to request confidential communications from a carrier in accordance with 45 C.F.R. § 164.522(b).</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A carrier that requires an enrollee to make a request for confidential communications in writing in accordance with 45 C.F.R. § 164.522(b) shall accept the standardized form developed by the Commissioner under this section for that purpose.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>This section may not be construed to limit acceptance by a carrier of any other form of written request from an enrollee for confidential communications from a carrier under 45 C.F.R. § 164.522(b).</text>
  </level>
</section>
