Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-2242

  • Health benefit plan: means a contract for group medical, surgical, hospital or any other remedial care recognized by state law and related services and supplies. See Kansas Statutes 40-2239
  • Health savings account: means a trust created or organized in the United States as a health savings account exclusively for the purpose of paying the qualified medical expenses of the account beneficiary, but only if the written governing instrument creating the trust meets the requirements specified by the medicare, prescription drug, improvement and modernization act of 2003, Pub. See Kansas Statutes 40-2239
  • Premium: means the monthly or other periodic charge for a health benefit plan. See Kansas Statutes 40-2239

As a condition to participation as a member of any small employer health benefit plan as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 40-2240, and amendments thereto, an employer shall have not contributed within the preceding two years to any health insurance premium or health savings account on behalf of an employee who is to be covered by the employer’s contribution other than a contribution by an employer to a health insurance premium or health savings account within the preceding two years solely for the benefit of the employer or the employer’s dependents.