§ 27-41-46 - Whistleblowers protection. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 27-41-46

   § 27-41-46  Whistleblowers protection.– No health maintenance organizations pursuant to this chapter or any otherinsurer offering and/or insuring health services on a prepaid basis as definedin § 42-62-4(7) shall engage in any retaliation or retribution, directlyor indirectly, or shall terminate or modify the terms of a medical serviceagreement that it maintains with a physician or other medical servicesprovider, because the physician or other provider reports or is about to reportverbally or in writing, to a public body, a regulatory agency, a subscriber ormember of the insured, the family or heirs or personal representative of thesubscriber or member or to any other person or public or private agency aviolation by the insurer of a subscriber or membership agreement, a law, ruleor regulation promulgated under the laws of this state.