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title: O.C.G.A. § 33-21A-3. Certificate of authority required; setting of rates; authority of commissioners.
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# O.C.G.A. § 33-21A-3. Certificate of authority required; setting of rates; authority of commissioners.

(a) A care management organization shall be required to obtain a certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization pursuant to Chapter 21 of this title prior to providing or arranging health care for members pursuant to a contract with the Department of Community Health. On and after the date of issuance of its certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization, a care management organization shall comply with all provisions relating to health maintenance organizations and all provisions relating to managed health care plans, with the exception of Code Section 33-20A-9.1.

(b) The Commissioner of Insurance shall not have the authority to approve, disapprove, or set rates paid by the Department of Community Health to a care management organization or paid by a care management organization to a health care provider.

(c) The Commissioner of Insurance shall not have the authority to approve, disapprove, or modify any plan offered by a care management organization or any contract between a care management organization and the Department of Community Health.

(d) Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as altering the authority of the commissioner of community health.

## History

Code 1981, § 33-21A-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 704, § 1/HB 1234.