Montana Code 33-22-241. Definitions
33-22-241. Definitions. As used in 33-22-242 and 33-22-243, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions apply:
Terms Used In Montana Code 33-22-241
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Group health plan: means an employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in 29 U. See Montana Code 33-22-140
- Medical care: means :
(a)the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or amounts paid for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body;
(b)transportation primarily for and essential to medical care referred to in subsection (19)(a); or
(c)insurance covering medical care referred to in subsections (19)(a) and (19)(b). See Montana Code 33-22-140
(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.