Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.3555

  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • 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 500.3501
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  •   A health maintenance organization shall maintain a financial plan evaluating, at a minimum, cash flow needs and adequacy of working capital. The plan under this subsection must do all of the following:
      (a) Demonstrate compliance with all health maintenance organization financial requirements provided for in this act.
      (b) Provide for adequate working capital, which must not be negative at any time. The director may establish a minimum working capital requirement for a health maintenance organization to ensure the prompt payment of liabilities.
      (c) Identify the means of achieving and maintaining a positive cash flow, including provisions for retirement of existing or proposed indebtedness.