If there is any outstanding insurance premiums and/or any overdue charges due from insurance medical care institutions, and such an outstanding debt remain unpaid after follow-up notices, the Insurer shall be entitled to offset the overdue outstanding with payable medical costs and expenses.

Where the franchise contract has been suspended or terminated prior to the effective date of the amended Regulations on December 30, 2002, such suspension or termination event shall not be included in the accumulation of the times of contract suspension or termination as required in Subparagraph 2 of Article 45.
The calculation of the times of contract suspension or termination pursuant to Subparagraphs 2 and 3 of Paragraph 1 of Article 5, Paragraph 4 of Article 5, and Subparagraph 2 of Article 45 for the cases before the effective date of the amended Regulations on September 15, 2010 is on the basis of one time per insurance medical care institution or its medical personnel. Contract suspension is not included if the disciplinary action covers both contract suspension and termination.

In rendering the disciplinary decision according to these regulations, adequate consideration shall be accorded to the violation of legal obligation, purpose, degree of fault, and implications as the basis of the handling of breach of contract.

These Regulations shall come into force on January 1, 2013.