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O.C.G.A. § 33-30-21 — Legislative intent | Georgia Code

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TITLE 33 INSURANCE

Section 30. Group or Blanket Accident and Sickness Insurance, 33-30-1 through 33-30-29.

ARTICLE 2 PREFERRED PROVIDER ARRANGEMENTS

33-30-21. Legislative intent.

It is the intent of the General Assembly to encourage health care cost containment while preserving quality of care by allowing health care insurers to enter into preferred provider arrangements and by establishing minimum standards for preferred provider arrangements and the health benefit plans associated with those arrangements.

(Code 1981, §33-30-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1483, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Judicial intervention refused.

- Appellate court refused to intervene in allegations made by uninsured patients against a non-profit hospital that the uninsured patients were charged more than patients who were covered by insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid, as it refused to intervene in a commercial transaction for which the legislature has already established a policy favoring price-comparison by the patient, whereby judges and juries would be called on to set appropriate prices for hospitals to charge the hospitals' patients. Cox v. Athens Reg'l Med. Ctr., Inc., 279 Ga. App. 586, 631 S.E.2d 792 (2006).

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This Georgia Code resource is curated by Georgia Bar member Graham W. Syfert, a personal injury and workers' compensation attorney admitted in Georgia (State Bar of Georgia No. 881027, since 2006) and Florida. Attorney Syfert regularly works with Title 33 in the context of Georgia insurance coverage law and represents clients throughout Northeast Florida and South Georgia. For legal consultation, call 904-383-7448.