Terms Used In Florida Statutes 641.427

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Prepaid health clinic: means any organization authorized under this part which provides, either directly or through arrangements with other persons, basic services to persons enrolled with such organization, on a prepaid per capita or prepaid aggregate fixed-sum basis, including those basic services which subscribers might reasonably require to maintain good health. See Florida Statutes 641.402
  • Prepaid health clinic contract: means any contract entered into by a prepaid health clinic with a subscriber or group of subscribers to provide any of the basic services in exchange for a prepaid per capita or prepaid aggregate fixed sum. See Florida Statutes 641.402
  • Subscriber: means an individual who has contracted, or on whose behalf a contract has been entered into, with a prepaid health clinic for health care services. See Florida Statutes 641.402
  • writing: includes handwriting, printing, typewriting, and all other methods and means of forming letters and characters upon paper, stone, wood, or other materials. See Florida Statutes 1.01
A prepaid health clinic may not cancel or otherwise terminate or fail to renew a prepaid health clinic contract without giving the subscriber at least 30 days’ notice in writing of the cancellation, termination, or nonrenewal of the contract. The written notice shall state the reason or reasons for the cancellation, termination, or nonrenewal. Every prepaid health clinic contract shall contain a clause which requires that this notice be given.