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CHAPTER 565 AN ACT CLARIFYING PROCEDURES FOR NOTIFYING GOVERNMENTAL UNITS OF CLAIMS BY EMPLOYEES UNDER A GROUP INSURANCE CONTRACT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The first paragraph of section 3 of chapter 32B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1986 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the third sentence the following two sentences:- Said policy, or policies, including policies purchased under authority of sections three A and sixteen, shall contain a requirement that the insurance company, savings bank, nonprofit hospital, medical, dental or other service corporations, other intermediary or health care organizations, shall furnish the governmental unit, or its designee, all nonconfidential claims without diagnosis on a form satisfactory to the governmental unit including, but not limited to, computer tape, disc or unlined paper reports. Said insurer may, pursuant to a contract between said insurer and said governmental unit, charge the governmental unit a reasonable fee to cover the costs of providing the nonconfidential claims in the form requested by the governmental unit.

Approved December 14, 1987.