PRINTER'S NO. 671
No. 604 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY COY, KING, NICKOL, BOYES, LAUGHLIN, SCHULER,
COLAFELLA, ITKIN, NAILOR, RIEGER AND MAYERNIK, MARCH 22, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, MARCH 22, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, adding provisions relating to actions of
3 administrative agencies for professional health service
4 corporations and standing to participate.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Chapter 63 of Title 40 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
9 CHAPTER 63
10 PROFESSIONAL HEALTH SERVICES PLAN
11 CORPORATIONS
12 * * *
13 SUBCHAPTER C
14 PROVISIONS FOR DENTAL SERVICES
15 Sec.
16 6341. Rate and contract participation.
17 § 6341. Rate and contract participation.
18 (a) Notice of hearings.--All decisions, rulings,
19 adjudications, approvals and other actions of the Department of
1 Health and the Insurance Department, relating to the activities
2 of a professional health service corporation involving a dental
3 plan, shall be made only after publication in the Pennsylvania
4 Bulletin of notice of opportunity for hearing.
5 (b) Standing.--Any dentist or dentists personally aggrieved
6 by a proposed action of a professional health service
7 corporation involving a dental plan or any State or local
8 professional dental society shall be deemed a full party in
9 interest and have standing and a right to participate in any
10 proceeding under this chapter and shall have the right upon
11 request to a formal administrative hearing.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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