§ 10730 (a) The Voluntary Alliance Uniting Employers Purchasing Program …
§ 10731 The board may do any of the following:(a) Enter into contracts …
§ 10731.2 Any person or entity subject to the requirements of this chapter …
§ 10732 The board shall establish geographic areas within which participating …
§ 10733 On or after the effective date of this chapter, the board shall enter …
§ 10733.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an employer purchasing …
§ 10734 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall …
§ 10735 The board shall contract with a broad range of carriers in an area, …
§ 10737 The board shall use appropriate and efficient means to notify small …
§ 10738 The board shall make available to small employers marketing materials …
§ 10739 Unless authorized by the board, no participating carrier shall, in an …
§ 10740 Participating carriers may contract with agents or brokers to provide …
§ 10741 The board shall enforce conditions of participation in the program …
§ 10742 The board shall establish a mechanism to collect premiums from small …
§ 10743 The board may prohibit employers or employees who drop coverage after …
§ 10744 The board shall arrange to pay contractors as specified in program …
§ 10745 The board shall pay participating carriers their contracted rates.
§ 10746 Participating carriers shall offer rates to small employers or …
§ 10747 The board may adjust payments made to a carrier if the board finds …
§ 10748 If a small employer, employee, or dependent of a small employer is …
§ 10748.5 No later than three years from the effective date of this article, …
§ 10748.6 The board shall accept and review proposals submitted from nonprofit …
§ 10748.7 There is in the program a five-member small employer advisory panel …
§ 10749 There is created a Voluntary Alliance Uniting Employers Fund which …
§ 10750 This chapter shall not apply to a health benefit plan that is subject …

Terms Used In California Codes > Insurance Code > Division 2 > Part 2 > Chapter 8 > Article 4 - Purchasing Pool for Small Employers

  • Agent or broker: means a person or entity licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 1621) of Part 2 of Division 1. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Board: means the Major Risk Medical Insurance Board. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Carrier: means any disability insurance company or any other entity that writes, issues, or administers health benefit plans that cover the employees of small employers, regardless of the situs of the contract or master policyholder. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
  • Enrollee: means an eligible employee or dependent who receives health coverage through the program from a participating carrier. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fund: means the California Small Group Reinsurance Fund. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Health benefit plan: means a policy or contract written or administered by a carrier that arranges or provides health care benefits for the covered eligible employees of a small employer and their dependents. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Insurance broker: means a person who, for compensation and on behalf of another person, transacts insurance other than life, disability, or health with, but not on behalf of, an insurer. See California Insurance Code 33
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
  • Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
  • Program: means the Health Insurance Plan of California. See California Insurance Code 10700
  • Small employer: means either of the following:

    California Insurance Code 10700

  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.