§ 31–3151. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:

(1) “Application” means a carrier’s application pursuant to this chapter for approval to voluntarily withdraw from the District of Columbia health insurance market.

(2) “Carrier” means any person or organization subject to the authority of the Commissioner that provides one or more health benefit plans in the District of Columbia, and includes an insurer, a hospital and medical services corporation, a fraternal benefit society, a health maintenance organization, or multiple employer welfare arrangement.

(3) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking.

(4) “Health benefit plan” means any accident and health insurance policy or certificate, hospital and medical services corporation contract, health maintenance organization subscriber contract, a plan provided by a multiple employer welfare arrangement, or a plan provided by another benefit arrangement. The term “health benefit plan” does not mean accident only, credit, or disability insurance; coverage of Medicare services or federal employee health plans, pursuant to contracts with the United States government; Medicare supplement or long-term care insurance; dental only or vision only insurance; specified disease insurance; hospital confinement indemnity coverage; limited benefit health coverage; coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance; insurance arising out of a workers’ compensation or similar law; automobile medical payment insurance; medical expense and loss of income benefits; or insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault and that is statutorily required to be contained in any liability insurance policy or equivalent self-insurance.

(5) “HIPAA” means the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, approved August 21, 1996 (110 Stat. 1936; scattered sections of the United States Code).

(6) “Medicare” means the health insurance program established pursuant to the Health Insurance for the Aged Act, approved July 30, 1965 (79 Stat. 290; 42 U.S.C. § 401 et seq.).

(7) “Withdraw” means the full cessation of underwriting insurance policies, including the nonrenewal of existing insurance policies, relative to any line of business or any subgroup thereof, including individual accounts.