The Florida Senate

636.036  Administrative, provider, and management contracts.--

(1)  The office may require a prepaid limited health service organization to submit any contract for administrative services, contract with a provider physician, contract for management services, or contract with an affiliated entity to the office if the office has information that the prepaid limited health service organization has entered into a contract which requires it to pay a fee which is unreasonably high in relation to the service provided.

(2)  After review of a contract, the office may order the prepaid limited health service organization to cancel the contract if it determines that the fees to be paid by the prepaid limited health service organization under the contract are so unreasonably high as compared with similar contracts entered into by the prepaid limited health service organization in similar circumstances that the contract is detrimental to the subscribers, stockholders, investors, or creditors of the prepaid limited health service organization.

(3)  All contracts for administrative services, management services, or provider services or contracts with affiliated entities, entered into or renewed by a prepaid limited health service organization on or after October 1, 1993, must contain a provision that the contract will be canceled upon issuance of an order by the office pursuant to this section.

History.--s. 29, ch. 93-148; s. 1534, ch. 2003-261.