§ 1 Purpose of chapter
§ 2 Definitions
§ 3 Group insurance commission
§ 3A Employees’ advisory committee
§ 3B Applicability of chapter to Commonwealth charter schools and education collaboratives
§ 4 Purchase of insurance policies by commission
§ 4A Administrative services contracts
§ 4B Retroactive claims denials for behavioral health services
§ 5 Insurance and medicare benefits of state employees
§ 6 Amounts of insurance and benefits; determination; alterations or reductions; separability
§ 7 Information furnished commission by employees
§ 8 Contributions for premiums by commonwealth and active or retired employees and dependents; ratio; withholding; direct payment; reimbursement by certain agencies; filing copies of contracts and agreements
§ 8A Employees on leaves of absence for more than one year; insurance costs charged to employing agency
§ 9 Dividends, refunds, rate credits; deposit in special funds; transfer of reserves
§ 9A Investment committee; investment and deposit of funds by state treasurer
§ 10 Retirement or termination of employment; effect on policy; conversion of insurance
§ 10A Additional insurance
§ 10B Insurance for elderly government retirees and their dependents
§ 10C Optional medicare extension
§ 10D Disability insurance; withholding payment of premiums
§ 10E Insurance for commonwealth employee granted leave to care for dependent child
§ 11 Death of employee or retired employee; continuation of insurance by spouse or dependent
§ 11A Divorced or separated spouses; continuation of insurance coverage
§ 12 Retired teachers; life and health insurance; agreements; contributions; withholding of premiums; reimbursement of premiums and expenses; dividends; rules and regulations
§ 13 Approval of applications by political subdivisions for life and health insurance covering retired teachers
§ 14 Optional insurance for services of health care organizations
§ 15 Catastrophic illness coverage; contracts; premiums; dividends; conversion; rules and regulations
§ 16 Election to continue insurance coverages; notice
§ 17 Dental and vision expenses; reimbursement of employees
§ 17A Coverage for nonprescription enteral formulas for home use
§ 17B Hospice services for commonwealth employees insured under group insurance commission
§ 17C Required coverage for abortion, abortion-related care, prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum care
§ 17D Coverage for bone marrow transplants
§ 17E Scalp hair prostheses necessary due to cancer or leukemia treatment
§ 17F Newborn hearing screening test; group insurance commission coverage
§ 17G Items medically necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of diabetes; group insurance commission coverage
§ 17H Coverage for human leukocyte or histocompatibility locus antigen testing
§ 17I Prosthetic devices and repairs; group insurance commission coverage
§ 17J Coverage for children under age 18 for cleft lip and cleft palate
§ 17K Coverage for orally administered anticancer medications
§ 17L Coverage for abuse deterrent opioid drug products
§ 17M Preauthorization for substance abuse treatment not to be required
§ 17N Coverage for medically necessary acute treatment and clinical stabilization services; preauthorization not to be required; notice to carrier of admission and initial treatment plan
§ 17O Coverage for medical or drug treatments to correct or repair disturbances of body composition caused by HIV associated lipodystrophy syndrome
§ 17P Filling of remaining portion of prescription for covered drug that is a narcotic substance earlier filled in lesser quantity
§ 17Q Pain management access plan
§ 17R Coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome
§ 17S Coverage for medically necessary mental health acute treatment, community-based acute treatment and intensive community-based acute treatment
§ 18 Medicare health benefits supplement plan, mandatory transfer; payment of penalty
§ 19 Release from insurance coverage; payment; reinstatement of coverage
§ 20 Charges or collections of excess compensation
§ 21 Health care services evaluation; vendor quality improvement program; annual report
§ 22 Diagnosis and treatment of certain biologically-based mental disorders; mental disorders of victims of rape; non-biologically-based mental disorders of children and adolescents under age 19; group insurance commission coverage
§ 22A Coverage for mental health or substance use disorder services delivered through the psychiatric collaborative care model
§ 22B Implement and enforcement of mental health parity provisions of the federal Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008; federal guidance and regulations and state mental health parity laws and regulations; ann
§ 23 Coverage for speech, hearing and language disorders
§ 24 State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund
§ 24A State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund board of trustees; membership; powers and duties
§ 25 Insurance coverage for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder
§ 26 Wellness program
§ 27 Toll-free telephone number and website providing customers with estimated or maximum allowed amount or charge for proposed admission, procedure or service
§ 28 Coverage for certain services and contraceptive methods
§ 29 Tobacco cessation
§ 30 Coverage for telehealth services
§ 31 Benefits for medically necessary emergency services programs to be provided on nondiscriminatory basis
§ 32 Coverage for annual mental health wellness examination
§ 33 Federally-defined preventive services
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Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 32A - Contributory Group General or Blanket Insurance for Persons in the Service of the Commonwealth

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Interests: includes any form of membership in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Other entity: includes a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.