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42 U.S. Code § 300e-10. Restrictive State laws and practices
(a) Entities operating as health maintenance organizationsIn the case of any entity—
(1) which cannot do business as a health maintenance organization in a State in which it proposes to furnish basic and supplemental health services because that State by law, regulation, or otherwise—
(A)
requires as a condition to doing business in that State that a medical society approve the furnishing of services by the entity,
(B)
requires that physicians constitute all or a percentage of its governing body,
(C)
requires that all physicians or a percentage of physicians in the locale participate or be permitted to participate in the provision of services for the entity,
(D)
requires that the entity meet requirements for insurers of health care services doing business in that State respecting initial capitalization and establishment of financial reserves against insolvency, or
(E)
imposes requirements which would prohibit the entity from complying with the requirements of this subchapter, and