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(4) (a)
No Except as provided in par. (b), no contract by or on behalf of
11any such cooperative association shall provide for the payment of any cash,
12indemnity
, or other material benefit by that association to the subscriber or the
13subscriber's estate on account of death, illness
, or injury,
nor be in any way related
1to the payment of any such benefit by any other agency, but any such association may
2stipulate in its
plan plans that it will pay any nonparticipating physician and
3surgeon, optometrist, chiropractor, dentist
or, hospital
outside of its normal territory
4for sickness or, or other provider for hospital
or other health care rendered
to any
5covered
member or a member's covered dependent person who is in need of
the a
6plan's benefits
of such plan when he or she is outside of the territory of such
7association in which the benefits of such plan are normally available. Any such plan.
8The plans may prescribe monetary limitations with respect to
such extraterritorial 9the benefits.
AB683-AA1,2,1311
185.981
(4) (b) A cooperative association may make a payment in cash,
12indemnity, or other material benefit for a purpose that is incidental to its plans,
13including for the purpose of administering coordination of benefits.".