California Code of Regulations
Title 10 - Investment
Chapter 5.7 - Voluntary Alliance Uniting Employers Purchasing Pool (the Health Insurance Plan of California)
Article 4 - Employer Premiums
Section 2699.6315 - Overdue Payments; Late Fees; Disqualification for Individual Members

(a) A participating individual member whose individual member premium is not paid in full by the due date shall be considered to be overdue. No act or failure to act on the part of a guaranteed association that is collecting premium for the guaranteed association's members shall encumber the program from proceeding as herein set forth.

(b) The program shall notify participating individual members of the overdue premium payment and the potential of disqualification from the program within fifteen (15) calendar days following the due date.

(c) Overdue employer premiums or individual member premiums shall be subject to a late fee equal to 5% of the employer or individual member premium.

(d) Individual member premiums more than thirty-one (31) calendar days overdue shall result in the member employer or individual member being disqualified pursuant to Section 2699.6175. The final date of coverage for member employers or individual members who are disqualified pursuant to Section 2699.6173 or 2699.6175 shall be retroactive to the last day for which individual member premium was paid in full.