Terms Used In Florida Statutes 641.3103

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Health maintenance organization: means any organization authorized under this part which:
    (a) Provides, through arrangements with other persons, emergency care, inpatient hospital services, physician care including care provided by physicians licensed under chapters 458, 459, 460, and 461, ambulatory diagnostic treatment, and preventive health care services. See Florida Statutes 641.19
  • Subscriber: means an entity or individual who has contracted, or on whose behalf a contract has been entered into, with a health maintenance organization for health care coverage or other persons who also receive health care coverage as a result of the contract. See Florida Statutes 641.19
No health maintenance contract shall contain any provision purporting to make any portion of the articles of incorporation, charter, bylaws, or other organizational document of the health maintenance organization a part of the contract unless the provision is set forth in full in the contract. Any contract provision in violation of this section is invalid, unless the provision operates to the benefit of the subscriber.