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Statutes > North-carolina > Chapter_58 > GS_58-65-150§58‑65‑150. Construction of Chapter as to single employer plans;associations exempt.
Nothing in this Article andArticle 66 of this Chapter shall be construed to affect or apply to hospital ormedical and/or dental service plans which limit their membership to employeesand the immediate members of the families of the employees of a single employeror his or its subsidiary or subsidiaries and which plans are operated by suchemployer of such limited group of the employees; nor shall this Article and Article66 of this Chapter be construed to affect or apply to any nonstock, nonprofitmedical service association which was, on January 1, 1943, organized solely forthe purpose of, and actually engaged in, the administration of any medicalservice plan in this State upon contracts and participating agreements withphysicians, surgeons, or medical societies, whereby such physicians or surgeonsunderwrite such plan by contributing their services to members of suchassociation upon agreement with such association as to the schedule of fees toapply and the rate and method of payment by the association from the commonfund paid in periodically by the members for medical, surgical and obstetricalcare; and such hospital service plans, and such medical service associations asare herein specifically described, are hereby exempt from the provisions ofthis Article and Article 66 of this Chapter. The Commissioner of Insurance mayrequire from any such hospital service plan or medical service association suchinformation as will enable him to determine whether such hospital service planor medical service association is exempt from the provisions of this Articleand Article 66 of this Chapter. (1941, c. 338, s. 18; 1943,c. 537, s. 10; 1947, c. 140; 1961, c. 1149.)
