33-22-241. Definitions. As used in 33-22-242 and 33-22-243, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Block of business" means an individual disability insurance policy certificate or contract filed and approved by the commissioner pursuant to 33-1-501 and written and sold by a health care insurer to a defined set of individuals. All individuals covered by the policy or contract are considered to be within the block of business.
     (2) "Health care insurer" means a disability insurer, a health service corporation, a health maintenance organization, or a fraternal benefit society.
     (3) (a) "Individual health benefit plan" means any hospital or medical expense policy or certificate, subscriber contract, or contract of insurance provided by a prepaid hospital or medical service plan or health maintenance organization subscriber contract and issued for delivery to an individual.
     (b) Individual health benefit plan does not include a self-funded group health plan; a self-funded multiemployer group health plan; a group conversion plan; an insured group health plan; accident-only, specified disease, short-term hospital or medical, hospital confinement indemnity, credit, dental, vision, medicare supplement, long-term care, or disability income insurance; coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance; workers' compensation or similar insurance; or automobile medical payment insurance.
     (4) "Qualifying previous coverage" means benefits or coverage provided under:
     (a) medicare or medicaid;
     (b) group health insurance or a health benefit plan that provides benefits similar to or exceeding benefits provided under the plan being applied for; or
     (c) an individual health benefit plan, including coverage issued by a health maintenance organization, a prepaid hospital or medical care plan, or a fraternal benefit society, that provides benefits similar to or exceeding the plan being applied for.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 527, L. 1995.