Premiums or charges paid for catastrophic health insurance provided pursuant to this chapter shall include an increment to defray the reasonable administrative costs of the department in administering this chapter that shall be transmitted by insurers to the department as provided in the contract.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 123215

  • Catastrophic health insurance: means a supplementary insurance contract that indemnifies a California resident for medical expenses, including at least the costs of the basic health care services that result from an illness, injury, or disease, and that are greater than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), subject to a lifetime benefit limit of one million dollars ($1,000,000). See California Health and Safety Code 123180
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20