2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 40 - INSURANCE
Chapter 63 - Professional Health Services Plan Corporations
Section 6324 - Rights of health service doctors

     § 6324.  Rights of health service doctors.
        (a)  Admission to plan.--Every health service doctor
     practicing within the area covered by any professional health
     service corporation shall have the right, on complying with such
     regulations as the corporation may make with the approval of the
     Department of Health, to register with such corporation for such
     general or special professional health services as he may be
     licensed to practice, within that area, but the corporation may,
     with the approval of the Department of Health, refuse to place
     the name of any health service doctor on its register. Any
     professional health service corporation may, with the approval
     of the Department of Health, remove from its register the name
     of any health service doctor after due notice and opportunity
     for hearing for cause satisfactory to the corporation. Nothing
     in this section shall be construed to limit the discretion of a
     professional health service corporation to determine the classes
     or kinds of services that will be covered under its contracts.
        (b)  Freedom from control.--Subject to the provisions of
     section 6322(e) of this title (relating to liability of
     corporation limited), a professional health service corporation
     shall impose no restrictions on the health service doctors who
     administer to its subscribers, as to methods of diagnosis or
     treatment. The relation between a subscriber, or any of his
     dependents, and the health service doctor shall be identical
     with the relation that ordinarily exists in the community
     between a health service doctor and his patient. Subject to the
     provisions of subsection (a) of this section, no person shall be
     permitted to interfere with the choice or selection by a patient
     of his health service doctor after that choice or selection has
     been made by an adult of sound mind.
        (c)  Disputes.--All matters, disputes, or controversies
     relating to the professional health services rendered by the
     health service doctors, or any questions involving professional
     ethics, shall be considered and determined only by health
     service doctors as selected in a manner prescribed in the bylaws
     of the professional health service corporation.
     (Oct. 9, 2008, P.L.1393, No.108, eff. 120 days)

        2008 Amendment.  Act 108 amended subsec. (a).