Iowa Code 513A.1 – Purpose
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 513A.1
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Iowa Code 510.1B
- 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.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
The purpose of this chapter is to give the commissioner jurisdiction over third-party payors of health care benefits, to indicate how a third-party payor of health care benefits may show the jurisdiction to which the third-party payor is subject, to allow for examinations by the commissioner if the third-party payor of health care benefits is unable to establish that a third-party payor is subject to another jurisdiction, to make a third-party payor of health care benefits subject to the laws of this state if the third-party payor cannot show that it is subject to another jurisdiction, and to disclose to purchasers of such health care benefits whether or not the plans are fully insured.