{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-27-20.5-1","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-20.5-1","heading":"Restriction on participation prohibited.","body":"It shall be unlawful for any nonprofit medical service corporation, hospital service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any other insurer offering and/or insuring health services on a prepaid basis as defined in § 42-62-4(7), or any other person, to provide that providers of medical services defined in § 27-20-1 shall render those services exclusively to subscribers of any one particular nonprofit or for-profit medical service corporation, hospital service corporation, health maintenance organization, insurers, or any other person in order for the provider to be a participant in the nonprofit or for-profit medical service corporation, hospital service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any other person; provided, that this section shall not apply to medical service providers who voluntarily agree to render those services on a full-time basis to a health maintenance organization.","path":["Title 27 Insurance","Chapter 20.5 Participation of Medical Service Providers"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE27/27-20.5/27-20.5-1.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T19:57:35Z","sha256":"46f79a4ce4b00f3d2fcc66529285a005ebd5a085cd49c7e8a2ec35b4c4e86a21","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-27-20.4-9","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-27-20.6-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}