Health insurance definition

Health insurance means protection which provides payment of benefits for covered sickness or injury.
Health insurance means insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses, spreading the risk over a large number of persons.
Health insurance means a plan or policy issued by a carrier for the payment for, provision of, or reimbursement for health care services.

Examples of Health insurance in a sentence

  • Health insurance will be paid for the individual and the individual's family up to the employer’s contribution if the employee was hired before July 1, 2006.

  • Health insurance coverage will be provided at a maximum of $500.00 per full-time employee.

  • Health insurance includes accidental death or supplemental health insurance products, with or without return-of premium benefits, including cancer, critical illness, hospital indemnity, or Medicare supplement.


More Definitions of Health insurance

Health insurance means health insurance as defined pursuant to N.J.S.A. 17B: 17-4; service benefits as provided by health service corporations, hospital service corporations or medical service corporations authorized to do business in this state, including basic health care services and/or supplemental health care services provided by health maintenance organizations, or dental care services provided by dental plan organizations and dental service corporations.
Health insurance means insurance coverage that provides basic health-care services, including usual physician services, office visits, hospitalization, and laboratory, X-ray, and emergency services, that may be provided through a health maintenance organization or other private or public organization, other than medical assistance under chapter 32 of the Texas Human Resources Code.
Health insurance means any group or individual health care benefit policy, contract, or other health benefit plan offered, issued, renewed, or administered by any health insurer, including any health care benefit plan offered, issued, renewed, or administered by any health insurance company, any nonprofit hospital and medical service corporation, or any managed care organization as defined in 18 V.S.A. § 9402. The term includes comprehensive major medical policies, contracts, or plans and Medicare supplemental policies, contracts, or plans, but does not include Medicaid, VHAP, or any other state health care assistance program financed in whole or in part through a federal program, unless authorized by federal law and approved by the general assembly. The term does not include policies issued for specified disease, accident, injury, hospital indemnity, long-term care, disability income, or other limited benefit health insurance policies, except that any policy providing coverage for dental services shall be included.
Health insurance means accident and sickness insurance authorized by chapter 509, 514, or 514A.
Health insurance as defined under ORS 731.162, means all insurance against bodily injury, illness or disability, and the resultant expenses, except for workers’ compensation coverage.
Health insurance means insurance providing for the costs and charges of medical treatment;
Health insurance means any individual or group hospital or medical expense-incurred policy or health care benefits plan or contract. The term does not include any policy governing short-term accidents only, a fixed-indemnity policy, a limited benefit policy, a specified accident policy, a specified disease policy, a Medicare supplement policy, a long-term care policy, medical payment or personal injury coverage in a motor vehicle policy, coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance, a disability policy, or workers' compensation;