{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-45-18-3","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 45-18-3","heading":"Design of plan.","body":"The health insurance plan shall be designed by the board to:\n(1) Provide a reasonable relationship between the hospital, surgical, and medical benefits to be included and the expected distribution of expenses of each such type to be incurred by the covered employees and dependents; and\n(2) Include reasonable controls, which may include deductible and reinsurance provisions applicable to some or all of the benefits, to reduce unnecessary utilization of the various hospital, surgical, and medical services to be provided and to provide reasonable assurance of stability in future years of the plan.","path":["TITLE 45 Public Officers and Employees","CHAPTER 18 Employees’ Insurance and Benefits Plans","Article 1 State Employees’ Health Insurance Plan and Post-employment Health Benefit Fund","PART 1 State Employees’ Health Insurance Plan"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.45.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"f92d05114eb292e99d490db95886261c74bf4102329045a59161c8abb3b6dc79","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-45-18-2","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-45-18-4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}