2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
CHAPTER 33 - HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
Section 38-33-270. Contractual powers of Department to assist in investigative duties; assessments for consulting expenses.
(A) The director or his designee, in carrying out the obligations under Sections 38-33-40, 38-33-170(B), and 38-33-180(A), may contract with qualified persons to make recommendations concerning the determinations required to be made by him. The recommendations may be accepted in full or in part by the director or his designee.
(B) The director or his designee may assess the health maintenance organization directly for consulting expenses incurred pursuant to subsection (A) and require the organization to remit payment directly to the consultant. These expenses must be reasonable. The director or his designee is not required to but may consider the results of a quality assurance examination made at an appropriate time by a person with whom the health maintenance organization has a contract to provide health care services or by a person who has a legitimate interest in the quality of care provided by the organization.
HISTORY: Enacted as 1976 Code Section 38-25-270 by 1987 Act No. 83, Section 1; recodified as Section 38-33-270 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 24; 1992 Act No. 403, Section 7; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 633.
