(a)  All RBC reports (to the extent the information is not required to be set forth in a publicly available annual statement schedule) and RBC plans (including the results or report of any examination or analysis of a health organization performed pursuant to this chapter and any corrective order issued by the commissioner pursuant to examination or analysis) with respect to a domestic health organization or foreign health organization that are filed with the commissioner constitute information that might be damaging to the health organization if made available to its competitors, and shall be kept confidential by the commissioner. This information shall not be made public or be subject to subpoena, other than by the commissioner and then only for the purpose of enforcement actions taken by the commissioner pursuant to this chapter or any other provision of the insurance laws of this state.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 27-4.7-9

  • Corrective order: means an order issued by the commissioner specifying corrective actions which the commissioner has determined are required;

    (3)  "Commissioner" means the director of the department of business regulation;

    (4)  "Domestic health organization" means a health organization domiciled in this state;

    (5)  "Foreign health organization" means a health organization that is licensed or authorized to do business in this state pursuant to this title but is not domiciled in this state;

    (6)  "NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners;

    (7)  "Health organization" means a health maintenance organization, limited health service organization, dental or vision plan, hospital, medical, and dental indemnity or service corporation or other managed care organization or any other entity providing a plan of health insurance, health benefits, or health services subject to this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-4.7-2

  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • RBC: means risk-based capital;

    (9)  "RBC instructions" means the RBC report, including risk-based capital instructions adopted by the NAIC, as these RBC instructions may be amended by the NAIC in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC;

    (10)  "RBC level" means a health organization's company action level RBC, regulatory action level RBC, authorized control level RBC, or mandatory control level RBC where:

    (i)  "Company action level RBC" means, with respect to any health organization, the product of two (2. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-4.7-2

  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Total adjusted capital: means the sum of:

    (i)  A health organization's statutory capital and surplus (i. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-4.7-2

(b)  It is the judgment of the legislature that the comparison of a health organization’s total adjusted capital to any of its RBC levels is a regulatory tool which may indicate the need for corrective action with respect to the health organization, and is not intended as a means to rank health organizations generally. Except as required under the provisions of this chapter, the making, publishing, disseminating, circulating, or placing before the public, or causing, directly or indirectly to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public, in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, or in the form of a notice, circular, pamphlet, letter, or poster, or over a radio or television station, or in any other way, an advertisement, announcement, or statement containing an assertion, representation, or statement with regard to the RBC levels of any health organization, or of any component derived in the calculation, by any health organization, agent, broker, or other person engaged in any manner in the insurance business, would be misleading and is prohibited; provided, that if any materially false statement with respect to the comparison regarding a health organization’s total adjusted capital to its RBC levels (or any of them) or an inappropriate comparison of any other amount to the health organization’s RBC levels is published in any written publication and the health organization is able to demonstrate to the commissioner with substantial proof the falsity of the statement, or the inappropriateness, then the health organization may publish an announcement in a written publication, if the sole purpose of the announcement is to rebut the materially false statement.

History of Section.
P.L. 2000, ch. 178, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 200, § 11; P.L. 2000, ch. 229, § 11.