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Indiana Code 27-1-37-3.5. “Hospital system” defined

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   Sec. 3.5. As used in this chapter, “hospital system” means:

(1) a parent corporation of at least one (1) hospital and any entity affiliated with the parent corporation through ownership, governance, or membership; or

Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-37-3.5

  • 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.
  • corporation: means an insurance company and includes all persons, partnerships, corporations, associations, orders or societies engaged in or proposing to engage in making any kind of insurance authorized by the laws of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
(2) a hospital and any entity affiliated with the hospital through ownership, governance, or membership.

As added by P.L.198-2021, SEC.20.

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Indiana Code 27-1-37.3-5. “Health plan”

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   Sec. 5. (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.).

Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-37.3-5

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
(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.

As added by P.L.55-2008, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.288-2019, SEC.1.

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