376.433. Self-insurance plans for health care, public entities--subject to Medicaid rights, obligations, and remedies.
Self-insurance plans for health care, public entities--subjectto Medicaid rights, obligations, and remedies.
376.433. 1. Any public entity which provides, furnishes, or pays forhospital, medical, surgical, or other health care services under a plan ofself-insurance to an employee or to any other person covered under thepublic entity's plan of self-insurance shall have the same rights andobligations, and be subject to the same remedies, as the department ofsocial services has with Medicaid, as provided in section 208.215, RSMo.
2. As used in this section, the term "public entity" shall have thesame meaning ascribed to it in section 107.170, RSMo.
3. This section shall not apply to limited benefit supplementalhealth insurance policies paid for entirely by an employee of the publicentity.
(L. 2004 H.B. 1233)