Terms Used In Florida Statutes 641.3104

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Health maintenance contract: means any contract entered into by a health maintenance organization with a subscriber or group of subscribers to provide coverage for comprehensive health care services in exchange for a prepaid per capita or prepaid aggregate fixed sum. See Florida Statutes 641.19
  • 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

(1) Every health maintenance contract shall be executed in the name of and on behalf of the health maintenance organization by its officer, attorney in fact, employee, or representative duly authorized by the organization.
(2) A facsimile signature of any executing individual may be used in lieu of an original signature.
(3) No health maintenance contract which is otherwise valid shall be rendered invalid by reason of the apparent execution thereof on behalf of the health maintenance organization by the imprinted facsimile signature of an individual not authorized so to execute as of the date of the contract.
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