Michigan Laws 500.3535 – Solicitation or advertising
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.3535
- Health maintenance organization: means a person that, among other things, does the following:
(i) Delivers health services that are medically necessary to enrollees under the terms of its health maintenance contract, directly or through contracts with affiliated providers, in exchange for a fixed prepaid sum or per capita prepayment, without regard to the frequency, extent, or kind of health services. See Michigan Laws 500.3501Health professional: means an individual licensed, certified, or authorized in accordance with state law to practice a health profession in his or her respective state. See Michigan Laws 500.3501
Solicitation of enrollees or advertising of the services, charges, or other nonprofessional aspects of the health maintenance organization‘s operation under this section is not in violation of laws relating to solicitation or advertising by health professionals. A health maintenance organization shall not, in its solicitation or advertising allowed under this section, include advertising that makes a qualitative judgment as to a health professional who provides services for the health maintenance organization. A health maintenance organization shall not, in its solicitation or advertising allowed under this section, offer a material benefit or other thing of value as an inducement to prospective subscribers other than the services of the health maintenance organization.