Ohio § 1731.05

§ 1731.05.

If a qualified alliance, or an alliance that, based upon evidence of interest satisfactory

to the superintendent of insurance, will be a qualified alliance within a reasonable

time, submits a request for a proposal on a health benefit plan to at least three

insurers and does not receive at least one reasonably responsive proposal within ninety

days from the date the last such request is submitted, the superintendent, at the

request of such alliance, may require that insurers offer proposals to such alliance

for health benefit plans for the small employers within such alliance.  Such proposals shall include such coverage and benefits for such premiums, as shall

take into account the functions provided by the alliance and the economies of scale,

and have other terms and provisions as are approved by the superintendent, consistent

with the purposes and standards set forth in section 1731.02 of the Revised Code .  Any insurer that does not submit a proposal when required to do so by the superintendent

hereunder, shall be deemed to be in violation of section 3901.20 of the Revised Code and shall be subject to all of the provisions of section 3901.22 of the Revised Code , including division (D)(1) of section 3901.22 of the Revised Code as if it provided that the superintendent may suspend or revoke an insurer's license

to engage in the business of insurance. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring an insurer to enter into an

agreement with an alliance under contractual terms that are not acceptable to the

insurer or to authorize the superintendent to require an insurer to enter into an

agreement with an alliance under contractual terms that are not acceptable to the

insurer. This section applies beginning eighteen months after its effective date.