Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-32

  • Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
  • Premium: means the amount payable to a prepaid health care plan contractor as consideration for the contractor's obligations under a prepaid health care plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
  • Prepaid health care plan: means any agreement by which any prepaid health care plan contractor undertakes in consideration of a stipulated premium:

    (1) Either to furnish health care, including hospitalization, surgery, medical or nursing care, drugs or other restorative appliances, subject to, if at all, only a nominal per service charge; or

    (2) To defray or reimburse, in whole or in part, the expenses of health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3

The director may adopt, amend, or repeal, pursuant to chapter 91, such rules and regulations as the director deems necessary or suitable for the proper administration and enforcement of this chapter.

The director may round off the amounts specified in this chapter for the purpose of eliminating payments from the premium supplementation fund in other than even dollar amounts or other purposes.

The director may prescribe the filing of reports by prepaid health care plan contractors and prescribe the form and content of requests by employers for premium supplementation and the period for the payment thereof.