Section 420-G:10-a Voluntary Small Employer Health Insurance Purchasing Alliances; Rulemaking.
I. The commissioner shall have the regulatory oversight authority to set standards for the licensure and conduct of purchasing alliances authorized under this section and to enforce such standards.
II. Each applicant and each duly licensed purchasing alliance shall file with the commissioner such information or documents as the commissioner shall adopt by rule as necessary to perform oversight function.
III. A purchasing alliance shall offer health benefit plans and establish conditions of participation for small employers, employees, and participating carriers that conform to the requirements of this chapter.
IV. Nothing in this section shall require 2 or more small employers to join a purchasing alliance as a condition of jointly purchasing health insurance coverage. Any such coverage jointly purchased by 2 or more small employers who do not join a purchasing alliance shall conform to the requirements of this chapter.
V. The commissioner shall adopt such rules, under RSA 541-A, and issue such orders as may be necessary to carry out the commissioner's oversight responsibilities under this section.
Source. 2000, 2:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2001.