Applicability of chapter. Applicability to medical group clinic corporations

(a) This chapter shall not apply to any corporation, including a corporation described in section 33-182ff, organized for the purposes of practicing medicine and providing health care services to the public under any other law authorizing the provision of such services by a corporation that was valid at the time of such corporation's organization. Any such corporation may bring itself within the provisions of this chapter by amending its certificate of incorporation in such manner as to be consistent with the requirements of this chapter and by affirmatively stating in the amended certificate of incorporation that the members have elected to bring the corporation within the provisions of this chapter. To the extent that such corporation has a current provider agreement with the Department of Social Services, the provider agreement shall remain in effect regardless of any amendment to the corporation's certificate of incorporation. (b) A medical group clinic corporation formed under chapter 594 of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to 1995, and in existence on September 30, 1995, and continuing to operate as such a corporation from September 30, 1995, until July 1, 2009, shall continue to be duly organized if such corporation elects not later than July 1, 2010, to bring itself within the provisions of this chapter in the manner described in subsection (a) of this section.