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Ark. Code Ann. § 23-75-101 (2026)

Definition

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  1. As used in this chapter, “hospital service corporations”, “medical service corporations”, and “hospital and medical service corporations” are corporations organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating nonprofit hospital service or medical service plans, or combination of plans, whereby hospital, medical, and related services may be provided by hospitals, physicians, or others with which the corporations have contracted for the purposes, to such of the public as become subscribers to the corporations under contracts which entitle each subscriber to certain hospital or medical services or benefits, or both.
  2. This section shall not be deemed to prohibit issuance, by corporations so authorized as of immediately prior to January 1, 1960, of contracts providing for the payment of cash indemnities for hospital, medical, or related services instead of providing for hospital or medical benefits on a service basis or from issuing contracts providing for a combination of indemnity and service benefits.

History. Acts 1959, No. 148, § 672; 1963, No. 54, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-4902.

Research References

Ark. L. Notes.

Sampson, Nonprofit Risk; Nonprofit Insurance, 2008 Ark. L. Notes 83.

Case Notes

Medical Service Corporations.

Since this section limits the power of medical service corporations to providing medical service, medical service corporation did not have the authority to sell life insurance policies. Woodyard v. Arkansas Diversified Ins. Co., 268 Ark. 94, 594 S.W.2d 13 (1980).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1992–1992 · leading case: HMO Arkansas, Inc. v. Dunn, 840 S.W.2d 804 (Ark. 1992).
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HMO Arkansas, Inc. v. Dunn, 840 S.W.2d 804 (Ark. 1992). “Sections 23-75-101 - 23-75-110 and 23-75-112 - 23-75-120 shall be construed to apply to health maintenance organizations, health care plans, and evidences of coverage except to the extent that the commissioner determines that the nature of health maintenance organizations,…”
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