Arkansas Code Title 23. Public Utilities and Regulated Industries § 23-75-101. Definitions

(a) As used in this chapter, “hospital service corporations”, “medical service corporations”, and “hospital and medical service corporations” are corporations organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating nonprofit hospital service or medical service plans, or combination of plans, whereby hospital, medical, and related services may be provided by hospitals, physicians, or others with which the corporations have contracted for the purposes, to such of the public as become subscribers to the corporations under contracts which entitle each subscriber to certain hospital or medical services or benefits, or both.

(b) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit issuance, by corporations so authorized as of immediately prior to January 1, 1960, of contracts providing for the payment of cash indemnities for hospital, medical, or related services instead of providing for hospital or medical benefits on a service basis or from issuing contracts providing for a combination of indemnity and service benefits.