Montana Title 33. Insurance and Insurance Companies § 33-30-306. Discrimination between individuals--restrictions--ratesetting by commissioner prohibited

(1) No person may knowingly make or permit any unreasonable discrimination between individuals in any classification which may be established by a health service corporation and of essentially the same condition of health in the amount of dues or rates charged for any membership contract or in the benefits payable thereunder or in any of the terms and conditions of such contract or in any manner whatever.

(2) Nothing herein contained shall, however, restrict the right of a health service corporation within the discretion of its board of directors to limit or define the classes of persons who shall be eligible to become members, to limit and to define the benefits which it will furnish, and define such benefits as it undertakes to furnish into classes or kinds. A health service corporation may make available to its members health services, or reimbursement therefor, as the board of directors of that corporation may approve.

(3) Nothing contained in subsection (1) includes within the definition of discrimination any of the following practices:

(4) Nothing in this chapter gives the commissioner power to fix and determine a rate level by classification or otherwise.