Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 29A. INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE · Article 3. INDIVIDUAL ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE
33-29A-31. Definitions.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
For purposes of this article, the term ‘‘individual accident and sickness insurance policy’’ means any policy insuring against loss resulting from sickness or from bodily injury or death by accident, or both, or any contract to furnish ambulance service in the future but does not include limited benefit insurance policies exempted from the definition of the term ‘‘health benefit policy’’ in Code Section 33-1-2. The term ‘‘individual accident and sickness insurance policy’’ shall also include comprehensive major medical coverage for medical and surgical benefits, and also includes ‘‘high deductible health plans’’ sold or maintained under the applicable provisions of Section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code.
History
Code 1981, § 33-29A-31, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 789, § 1/HB 47; Ga. L. 2019, p. 337, § 1-92/SB 132. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, in this Code section, deleted ‘‘paragraph (1.1) of’’ preceding ‘‘Code Section 33-1-2’’ near the end of the first sentence, and substituted ‘‘‘high deductible health plans’’’ for ‘‘‘High Deductible Health Plans’’’ in the middle of the second sentence.
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