Montana Code 33-36-104. Applicability and scope
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33-36-104. Applicability and scope. This chapter applies to all health carriers that offer managed care plans. This chapter does not exempt a health carrier from the applicable requirements of federal law when providing a managed care plan to medicare recipients or from the applicable requirements of federal law or Title 53, chapter 6, when providing a managed care plan to medicaid recipients.
Terms Used In Montana Code 33-36-104
- Health carrier: means an entity subject to the insurance laws and rules of this state that contracts, offers to contract, or enters into an agreement to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for, or reimburse any of the costs of health care services, including a disability insurer, health maintenance organization, or health service corporation or another entity providing a health benefit plan. See Montana Code 33-36-103
- Managed care plan: means a health benefit plan that either requires or creates incentives, including financial incentives, for a covered person to use health care providers managed, owned, under contract with, or employed by a health carrier, but not preferred provider organizations or other provider networks operated in a fee-for-service indemnity environment. See Montana Code 33-36-103