Alaska Statutes: AS 21.86.250. Penalties and Enforcement.

Alaska Statutes. Title 21. Insurance Chapter 86. Health Maintenance Organizations Section 250. Penalties and Enforcement.

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AS 21.86.250. Penalties and Enforcement.

(a) Instead of, or in addition to, suspending or revoking a certificate of authority, the director may, in an order issued under AS 21.86.200, impose an administrative penalty in an amount not less than $1,000 nor more than $25,000 for each violation of an applicable provision of this chapter or a regulation adopted under this chapter.
(b) The director may issue an order directing a health maintenance organization or a person representing a health maintenance organization to stop engaging in an act or practice that is in violation of this chapter or a regulation adopted under this chapter. Within five days after service of a stop order under this subsection, the respondent may request, in writing, a hearing on the question of whether the act or practice has occurred in violation of this chapter or a regulation adopted by the director. The hearing shall commence within 10 days after the written request for the hearing has been received by the director unless the respondent requests that the hearing take place at a later date and the director agrees to the later hearing date.

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