Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/386

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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 344

42 USC 1396.

42 USC 1301. 42 USC 1395c, ^^^^J-

PUBLIC LAW 97-248—SEPT. 3, 1982 Paragraph (2)(A)(ii) shall not apply to an entity which had contracted with a single State agency administering a State plan approved under title XIX for the provision of services (other than inpatient hospital services) to individuals eligible for such services under such State plan on a prepaid risk basis prior to 1970. "(c)(1) The Secretary may not enter into a contract under this section with an eligible organization unless it meets the requirements of this subsection and subsection (e) with respect to members enrolled under this section. "(2) The organization must provide to members enrolled under this section, through providers and other persons that meet the applicable requirements of this title and part A of title XI— "(A) only those services covered under parts A and B of this title, for those members entitled to benefits under part A and enrolled under part B, or "(B) only those services covered under part B, for those members enrolled only under such part, which are available to individuals residing in the geographic area served by the organization, except that (i) the organization may provide such members with such additional health care services as the members may elect, at their option, to have covered, and (ii) in the case of an organization with a risk-sharing contract, the organization may provide such members with such additional health care services as the Secretary may approve. The Secretary shall approve any such additional health care services which the organization proposes to offer to such members, unless the Secretary determines that including such additional services will substantially discourage enrollment by covered individuals with the organization. "(3)(A) Each eligible organization must have an open enrollment period, for the enrollment of individuals under this section, of at least 30 days duration every year, and must provide that at any time during which enrollments are accepted, the organization will accept up to the limits of its capacity (as determined by the Secretary) and without restrictions, except as may be authorized in regulations, individuals who are eligible to enroll under subsection (d) in the order in which they apply for enrollment, unless to do so would result in failure to meet the requirements of subsection (f) or would result in the enrollment of enrollees substantially nonrepresentative, as determined in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, of the population in the geographic area served by the organization. "(B) An individual may enroll under this section with an eligible organization in such manner as may be prescribed in regulations and may terminate his enrollment with the eligible organization as of the beginning of the first calendar month following a full calendar month after the request is made for such termination (or, in the case of financial insolvency of the organization, as may be prescribed by regulations) or, in the case of such an organization with a reasonable cost reimbursement contract, as may be prescribed by regulations. "(C) The Secretary may prescribe the procedures and conditions under which an eligible organization that has entered into a contract with the Secretary under this subsection may inform individuals eligible to enroll under this section with the organization about the organization, or may enroll such individuals with the organization. "(D) The organization must provide assurances to the Secretary that it will not expel or refuse to re-enroll any such individual