IC 27-13-18
     Chapter 18. Enrollment Period in Event of Receivership

IC 27-13-18-1
Offer of coverage required; allocation of contracts
     Sec. 1. (a) In the event of receivership of a health maintenance organization, the commissioner may order all other carriers that participated in the enrollment process of the group covered by the organization in receivership at the last regular enrollment period of the group to offer the enrollees of the organization in receivership an enrollment period of thirty (30) days beginning on the date of receivership.
    (b) Each carrier referred to in subsection (a) shall offer the enrollees of the health maintenance organization in receivership:
        (1) the same coverage;
        (2) under the same terms; and
        (3) at the same rates;
as the carrier had offered at the last regular enrollment period of the group. The coverage required under this chapter shall begin on the date of receivership and end on the date the contract period would have ended had the health maintenance organization not gone into receivership.
    (c) If there is no carrier referred to in subsection (a), or the commissioner determines that there is no carrier referred to in subsection (a) that has adequate or accessible resources, the commissioner shall equitably allocate the:
        (1) group contracts of the health maintenance organization in receivership; and
        (2) individual contracts of the health maintenance organization in receivership belonging to enrollees who are unable to obtain other coverage;
among all health maintenance organizations operating within a portion of the service area of the health maintenance organization in receivership. The commissioner shall not allocate individual contracts to a health maintenance organization that does not offer direct individual enrollment.
    (d) A health maintenance organization to which the commissioner allocates a group contract under subsection (c)(1) shall offer to the group existing coverage that is most similar to the group's coverage with the health maintenance organization in receivership, at rates consistent with the successor health maintenance organization's existing rating methodology.
    (e) A health maintenance organization to which the commissioner allocates individual contracts under subsection (c)(2) shall offer to the enrollee existing individual or conversion coverage that is most similar to the enrollee's coverage with the health maintenance organization in receivership, at rates consistent with the successor health maintenance organization's existing rating methodology.
As added by P.L.26-1994, SEC.25. Amended by P.L.203-2001, SEC.27.

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IC 27-13-18-2
Failing to provide for continuation of benefits; assessments of health maintenance organizations; tax credits or premium adjustments
     Sec. 2. (a) If for any reason the plan of the health maintenance organization under IC 27-13-16 does not provide for continuation of benefits as required by IC 27-13-16-1, the liquidator shall assess, or cause to be assessed, each licensed health maintenance organization doing business in Indiana. The amount that each licensed health maintenance organization is assessed must be based on the ratio of the amount of all subscriber premiums received by the health maintenance organization for contracts issued in Indiana for the previous calendar year to the amount of the total subscriber premiums received by all licensed health maintenance organizations for contracts issued in Indiana for the previous calendar year.
    (b) The total assessments of health maintenance organizations under subsection (a) must equal an amount sufficient to provide for continuation of benefits as required by IC 27-13-16-1 to enrollees covered under contracts issued by the health maintenance organization to subscribers located in Indiana, and to pay administrative expenses.
    (c) The total amount of all assessments to be paid by a health maintenance organization in any one (1) calendar year may not exceed one percent (1%) of the premiums received by the health maintenance organization from business in Indiana during the calendar year preceding the assessment.
    (d) If the total amount of all assessments in any one (1) calendar year does not provide an amount sufficient to meet the requirements of subsection (a), additional funds must be assessed in succeeding calendar years.
    (e) Health maintenance organizations that, during any preceding calendar year, have paid one (1) or more assessments levied under this section may either:
        (1) take as a credit against adjusted gross income taxes or similar taxes upon revenue or income of health maintenance organizations that may be imposed by Indiana up to twenty percent (20%) of any assessment described in this section for each calendar year following the year in which those assessments were paid until the aggregate of those assessments have been offset; or
        (2) include in the premiums charged for coverage to which this article applies amounts sufficient to recoup a sum equal to the amounts paid in assessments as long as the premiums are not excessive by virtue of including an amount reasonably calculated to recoup assessments paid by the health maintenance organization.
As added by P.L.26-1994, SEC.25. Amended by P.L.192-2002(ss), SEC.170.

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