10. a. Every health maintenance organization shall file with the department a copy of all advertising materials to be used in promoting medicare supplement health care services to which residents of this State will have access, and through which the health maintenance organization intends, or by implication purports to the reasonable, targeted consumer its intent, to make such services available for enrollment in this State. The requirements of this section shall apply to all advertisements in any medium whether in print or by means of television or radio broadcast. Filings shall be made at least 30 days prior to the date on which the advertisement is to be used in this State, or made accessible to residents of this State.

b. The commissioner may, in the public interest, promulgate regulations governing medicare supplement health care services advertising including, but not limited to, specific filing procedures, standards upon which review may be based, celebrity endorsements, unfair practices and review and disapproval procedures.

c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection b. of this section, the commissioner may disapprove any advertisement for use in this State at any time if he determines that the advertisement misrepresents the product, misleads the targeted consumer, uses a strategy which involves scare tactics, unnecessarily confusing data or representations, false or fraudulent statements or otherwise violates any applicable law of this State or regulation promulgated thereunder.

L.1992,c.164,s.10.