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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1373

    Amendment No. 2 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Insurance offered the following:

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13         Amendment 

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15  remove:  all of said lines

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17  and insert:  deficiency reserves. If a health maintenance

18  organization, through a health care contract, transfers to any

19  entity the obligation to pay any provider for any claim

20  arising from services provided to or for the benefit of any

21  subscriber, the liabilities of the health maintenance

22  organization under this section shall include the amount of

23  those losses and claims to the extent that the provider has

24  not received payment.  No liability need be established if the

25  entity has provided to the health maintenance organization a

26  financial instrument acceptable to the department securing the

27  obligations under the contract, or the health maintenance

28  organization has in place an escrow or withhold agreement

29  approved by the department which assures full payment of those

30  claims.  For purposes of this paragraph, the word "entity"

31  does not include this state, the United States, or an agency

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1373

    Amendment No. 2 (for drafter's use only)





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