Sec. 1. (a) A health maintenance organization shall allow each enrollee of the health maintenance organization to choose the enrollee’s own primary care provider from a list of participating primary care providers within the health maintenance organization.

     (b) The list described in subsection (a) shall be updated semiannually and must include a sufficient number of primary care providers that accept new enrollees. The list must be:

(1) provided to each enrollee annually; and

(2) sent to an enrollee at the enrollee’s request.

As added by P.L.69-1998, SEC.15.