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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 376.1510

Prohibited acts

Known as the Standard Valuation Law

The act spans §§ 376–376 (408 sections).

Effective: 28 Aug 2007; (L. 2007 H.B. 818 merged with S.B. 66)

A discount medical plan organization shall not:

(1) Use in its advertisements, marketing material, brochures, and discount cards the terms "health plan", "coverage", "co-pay", "co-payments", "preexisting conditions", "guaranteed issue", "premium", "PPO", "preferred provider organization", or other terms in a manner that could reasonably mislead a person to believe that the discount medical plan is health insurance;

(2) Except for hospital services, have restrictions on free access to plan providers including waiting periods and notification periods;

(3) Pay providers any fees for medical services;

(4) Collect or accept money from a member for payment to a provider for specific medical services furnished or to be furnished to the member, unless the organization is licensed by the director to act as an administrator; or

(5) Except as otherwise provided in sections 376.1500 to 376.1532, as a disclaimer of any relationship between discount medical plan benefits and insurance, or as a description of an insurance product connected with a discount medical plan, use in its advertisements, marketing material, brochures, and discount cards the term "insurance".

Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.