514B.31 - TAXATION.

        514B.31  TAXATION.         Payments received by a health maintenance organization for health      care services, insurance, indemnity, or other benefits to which an      enrollee is entitled through a health maintenance organization      authorized under this chapter and payments by a health maintenance      organization to providers for health care services, to insurers, or      corporations authorized under chapter 514 for insurance, indemnity,      or other service benefits authorized under this chapter are not      premiums received and taxable under the provisions of section 432.1      for the first five years of the existence of the health maintenance      organization, its successors or assigns.  After the first five years,      the payments received shall be considered premiums received and shall      be taxable under the provisions of section 432.1, subsection 1.      However, payments made by the United States secretary of health and      human services under contracts issued under section 1833 or 1876 of      the federal Social Security Act, section 4015 of the federal Omnibus      Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, or chapter 249A for enrolled      members shall not be considered premiums received and shall not be      taxable under section 432.1.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 514B.31] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         90 Acts, ch 1173, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1158, §8         Referred to in § 514E.1