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2019 Minnesota Statutes Index (topics)
SMALL EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS
See also HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE
Accountable provider networks, compliance, Minn. Statutes 2019 62T.03
Accreditation standards, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.09
Actuarial opinions, reports about, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.10
Assessments
Failure to pay, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Liability, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.09
Associations
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.045
Rural purchasing alliances, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2019 62D.30
Audits and examinations
Group coverage, issued to employers not meeting contribution or participation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Loss ratio standards, compliance audits, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Benefits
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.05
Reinsurance, limitations, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.19
Cancellation
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Health carriers, cessation of small employer business, limitations, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.09
Certificates and certification, Health Coverage Reinsurance Association, nonparticipation, standards, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.17
Cessation of business, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Coinsurance, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Collective bargaining agreements
Considered as separate small employers, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Guaranteed issue, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Complaints, provider network adequacy, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.105
Compliance, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.04
Conflict of laws, portability of coverage, prevailing law, Minn. Statutes 2019 62Q.18
Contested cases, health carriers, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Continuation and conversion privileges
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.045
Violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Copayment-type small employer plan, health maintenance organizations, rural demonstration project, waiver, Minn. Statutes 2019 62D.30
Coverage
Abortion, Minn. Statutes 2019 145.414
Availability, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.07
Cancellation, nonrenewal, or termination, unfair competition, unfair trade practices, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.10
Compliance requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.04
Dependents, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.302, 62L.05
Emergency prescription drug coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62Q.528
Employer contributions, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.04
Exceptions, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Exclusionary riders, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Flexible benefits plans, Minn. Statutes 2019 62Q.188
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.05
Group coverage, employers not meeting contribution or participation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Health carriers, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Individual plans, offer, sale, issuance, or renewal, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Minimum participation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association (MCHA) enrollees, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.045
Modification, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Portability, individual market regulations, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Preexisting conditions, limitations or exclusions, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Qualified associations, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.045
Qualifying coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Renewability, disclosure requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.06
Replacement individual coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.04
Short-term coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Stop loss coverage, claims settlement period, Minn. Statutes 2019 60A.236
Violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Waivers, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.07
Deductible-type small employer plan, health maintenance organizations, rural demonstration project, waiver, Minn. Statutes 2019 62D.30
Definitions, Small Employer Health Benefit Act, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02, 62L.03
Demonstration projects, Minn. Statutes 2019 62D.30
Dental plans, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.03, 62K.14
Disclosure
Affordable Care Act requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.07
Loss ratios, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Solicitation and sales materials, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Eligibility
Fraud or misrepresentation, coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Small employers, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.07
Verification, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.07
Eligible charges, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Employees
Eligibility, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02, 62L.03, 62L.07
Notice received, coverage, availability and waiver, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.07
Number of employees, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Taxes, payment by employer, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Employer-based voluntary purchasing pools, Minn. Statutes 2019 62Q.17
Employer violations, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Employers, fraud or misrepresentation, cancellation or nonrenewal, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Enforcement of law
Commerce Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.08, 62L.11
Health Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Enrollees, waiting periods, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Exclusionary riders, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Flexible benefits plans, Minn. Statutes 2019 62Q.188
Group insurance, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2019 60A.02
Health benefit plans
Discontinued plans, cancellation or nonrenewal of coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Flexible benefits plans, Minn. Statutes 2019 62Q.188
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Health care taxes, Minn. Statutes 2019 295.53
Health carriers
Accreditation standards, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.09
Appeals, Health Coverage Reinsurance Association, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.22
Assessments, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.09, 62L.11
Cessation of small employer business, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.09
Contested cases, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Data collection, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.07, 62L.06
Employee coverage, cancellation or nonrenewal, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Fines, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.10
Health Coverage Reinsurance Association participation, election, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.17
Index rates, regulation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.02
Individual market regulation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Liability, transfer of risk, claims, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.20
Licenses or certificates of authority, suspension or revocation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Loss ratios, filing, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Marketing standards under Affordable Care Act, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.08
Notice given, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.09, 62L.20
Notice received, Health Coverage Reinsurance Association participation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.17
Qualified associations, arrangement, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.045
Rate cells, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.02
Rates, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Rating schedules, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Small employer market, participation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02, 62L.03
Violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Health plan policies issued as stop loss coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 60A.235
Individual plans, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Issuance, guaranteed issue, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03 to 62L.05
Joint self-insurance employee health plans, Minn. Statutes 2019 62H.04, 62H.08
Late entrants
Exclusions, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Loss ratios
Compliance requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Filing requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.02, 62A.021
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Standards, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021, 62L.045, 62L.08
Marketing
Loss ratios, disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Standards under Affordable Care Act, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.08
Orders, filed rates, reduction, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Policies
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.02
Individual policies, offer, sale, issuance, or renewal, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Loss ratios, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.02, 62A.021
Medicare supplement insurance, offer, sale, issuance, or renewal, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Riders, preexisting conditions, exclusionary riders prohibited, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Policy of state
Abortion, coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 145.414
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.01
Policyholders, notice received, health carriers, cessation of business, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Preexisting conditions
Effect, disclosure requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.06
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Provider networks, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.10, 62K.105, 62L.06
Providers
Billing, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.11
Network notifications, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.075
Quality assurance and improvement, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.12
Records and record keeping, health carriers, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.10
Renewal
Ceding of risk, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.18
Disclosure requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.06
Following health carriers' cessation of small employer business, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.09
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Guaranteed renewal, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65, 62L.045
Reports given, health care taxes, qualifying exemptions and exclusions, Minn. Statutes 2019 295.53
Risk-based rating, policy of state, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.01
Risk pools, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Rulemaking about, group insurance benefits, continuation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.045
Service area requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.13
Short-term coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.65
Small Employer Health Benefit Act, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.01 to 62L.22
Small employer market, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Small employers
Contributions, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.04, 62L.11
Employers ceasing to qualify, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.02
Notice received, health carriers, cessation of small employer business, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.09
Participation, health carrier violations, effect on license, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Record keeping, group coverage, issuance to employers not meeting contribution or participation requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Verification of eligibility, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.07
Waivers of coverage, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.07
Staff model health plan companies, health care taxes, Minn. Statutes 2019 295.50
Stop loss coverage, claims settlement period, Minn. Statutes 2019 60A.236
Tobacco rating, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.08
Underwriting
Disclosure requirements, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.06
Gender-based decisions, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.306, 62A.65
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.10
Underwriting restrictions
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03
Group insurance benefits, continuation, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.045
Unfair or deceptive trade practices, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.021
Violations and penalties
Agents, license revocation or suspension, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Commerce Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Contested cases, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.11
Individual policies, issuance, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Other products, sale of health benefit insurance conditioned on, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.12
Policies, employer violations, Minn. Statutes 2019 62A.303
Waivers
Coverage, Minn. Statutes 2019 62L.03, 62L.07
Provider network adequacy, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.10
Quality assurance and improvement program, Minn. Statutes 2019 62K.12