Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 144 - Health Department
Chapter 4685 - HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
COORDINATION OF BENEFITS
Part 4685.0925 - PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED BY SECONDARY PLAN

Subpart 1. Total allowable expenses.

When a plan is a secondary plan under part 4685.0915, its benefits may be reduced so that the total benefits paid or provided by all plans during a claim determination period are not more than total allowable expenses. The amount by which the secondary plan's benefits have been reduced shall be used by the secondary plan to pay allowable expenses, not otherwise paid, that were incurred during the claim determination period by the person for whom the claim is made. As each claim is submitted, the secondary plan determines its obligation to pay for allowable expenses based on all claims that were submitted up to that time during the claim determination period.

Subp. 2. Reducing benefits of a secondary plan.

The benefits of the secondary plan shall be reduced when the sum of the benefits that would be payable for the allowable expenses under the secondary plan in the absence of coordination of benefits provisions in parts 4685.0905 to 4685.0950 and the benefits that would be payable for the allowable expenses under the other plans, in the absence of coordination of benefits provisions in parts 4685.0905 to 4685.0950, whether or not claim is made, exceeds those allowable expenses in a claim determination period. In that case, the benefits of the secondary plan shall be reduced so that they and the benefits payable under the other plans do not total more than those allowable expenses.