Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-102

  • Long-term care insurance: means any insurance policy or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than twelve consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:10H-104

The requirements of this article shall apply to policies delivered or issued for delivery in this State on or after July 1, 2000. This article is not intended to supersede the obligations of entities subject to this article to comply with the substance of other applicable insurance laws insofar as they do not conflict with this article, except that laws and regulations designed and intended to apply to medicare supplement insurance policies shall not be applied to long-term care insurance.