O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-24-16.1 (2019)

Clarification of term ‘‘actual charge’’ or ‘‘actual fee’’

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) The term ‘‘actual charge’’ or ‘‘actual fee,’’ when used in an individual or group specified disease insurance policy, shall mean the amount actually paid by or on behalf of an insured person and accepted as full payment by a health care provider or other designated person for the goods or services provided.

(b) The General Assembly finds and declares that the provisions of subsection (a) of this Code section are intended to clarify the correct interpretation of the defined terms for instances in which the particular insurance policy does not otherwise contain a definition.

History

Code 1981, § 33-24-16.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 767, § 2/SB 385; Ga. L. 2019, p. 386, § 30/SB 133.

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, deleted ‘‘current’’ following ‘‘clarify the’’ in the middle of subsection (b).