Starr N J
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA, USA.
J Health Law. 1999 Winter;32(1):115-37.
As more Blue Cross/Blue Shield Organizations employ various means to convert to for-profit status, myriad issues arise concerning the proper treatment of assets that were accumulated during the not-for-profit years of such organizations. Moreover, state officials face pressure from all sides to assure that the conversion process is "fair." In the following Article, the author examines the conversion of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia to demonstrate the various conversion issues that arise under traditional legal principles--as well as the means by which that Blue employed newly enacted legislation to avoid many of the requirements that otherwise would have attended its conversion.
随着越来越多的蓝十字/蓝盾组织采用各种手段转变为营利性机构，关于这些组织在非营利时期积累的资产如何妥善处理出现了无数问题。此外，州政府官员面临各方压力，要确保转变过程是“公平的”。在接下来的文章中，作者研究了佐治亚州蓝十字蓝盾公司的转变情况，以展示在传统法律原则下出现的各种转变问题，以及该蓝盾公司利用新颁布的立法来规避原本在其转变过程中会面临的许多要求的方式。
