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Complemented by, and without impairing the provisions of this chapter, the Administration is hereby authorized to execute pilot plans for direct contracting with health purveyors, within the year counting from the effective date of the act that creates this Article IX, with the purpose of allowing the negotiation and contracting of health insurance plans by the Administration with purveyors of the health services as defined by this chapter. Every six (6) months from the approval of this act, the Administration shall inform the Legislature of Puerto Rico on the evaluation, viability and the possibility of extending it to other areas or regions of the Island.\nHistory —Sept. 7, 1993, No. 72, added as Art. IX, § 2 on July 19, 2002, No. 105, § 5; renumbered as § 4 on Dec. 29, 2003, No. 334, § 2, eff. 30 days after Dec. 29, 2003.