Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 27-1-37.3-5 - "Health plan"(a) As used in this chapter, "health plan" means a plan through which coverage is provided for health care services through insurance, prepayment, reimbursement, or otherwise. The term includes the following: (1) An employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in 29 U.S.C. 1002 et seq.).(2) A policy of accident and sickness insurance (as defined in IC 27-8-5-1).(3) An individual contract (as defined in IC 27-13-1-21) or a group contract (as defined in IC 27-13-1-16).(b) The term does not include the following: (1) Accident-only, credit, Medicare supplement, long term care, or disability income insurance.(2) Coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance.(3) Worker's compensation or similar insurance.(4) Automobile medical payment insurance.(5) A specified disease policy issued as an individual policy.(6) A short term insurance plan that: (A) may be renewed for the greater of: (i) thirty-six (36) months; or(ii) the maximum period permitted under federal law;(B) has a term of not more than three hundred sixty-four (364) days; and(C) has an annual limit of at least two million dollars ($2,000,000).(7) A policy that provides a stipulated daily, weekly, or monthly payment to an insured during hospital confinement, without regard to the actual expense of the confinement.Amended by P.L. 288-2019,SEC. 1, eff. 7/1/2019.As added by P.L. 55-2008, SEC.1.