Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1260.6

  • Discount medical plan: shall mean a business arrangement or contract in which a person, in exchange for fees, dues, charges or other valuable consideration, provides access for plan members to providers of medical services and the right to receive medical services from those providers at a discount. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1260.2
  • Discount medical plan organization: shall mean any person or organization that operates a discount medical plan and contracts with providers, provider networks or other discount medical plan organizations to offer access to medical services at a discount and determines the charge to discount medical plan members. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1260.2

Each discount medical plan organization shall maintain an up-to-date list of the names and addresses of the providers with which it has contracted directly or through a provider network.  This Section applies to those providers with which the discount medical plan organization has contracted with directly as well as those providers that are members of a provider network with which the discount medical plan organization has contracted.

Acts 2008, No. 442, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Redesignated by Acts 2009, No. 503, §3.