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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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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
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