Rhode Island General Laws 27-19-37. Whistleblowers protection
No nonprofit hospital service corporation pursuant to this chapter or any other insurer offering and/or insuring health services on a prepaid basis as defined in § 42-62-4(7) shall engage in any retaliation or retribution, directly or indirectly, or shall terminate or modify the terms of a medical service agreement that it maintains with a physician or other medical services provider, because the physician or other provider reports or is about to report verbally or in writing, to a public body, a regulatory agency, a subscriber or member of the insured, the family or heirs or personal representative of the subscriber or member, or to any other person or public or private agency a violation by the insurer of a subscriber or membership agreement, a law, rule, or regulation promulgated under the laws of this state.
History of Section.
P.L. 1997, ch. 167, § 2.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 27-19-37
- 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.
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- Medical services: as used in this chapter means professional services rendered by physicians, dentists, podiatrists, or other providers of health services for any medical, dental, surgical, and other health services as may lawfully be rendered by them to subscribers; the term includes appliances, drugs, medicines, supplies, and nursing care necessary in connection with those services, or the expense indemnity for those services, appliances, drugs, medicines, supplies, and care, as may be specified in any nonprofit medical service plan. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-19-17
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- provider: means a healthcare professional or a healthcare facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-19-1