Definitions

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As used in this chapter, the term:

  1. "Consumer driven health plan" means a plan for the provision or reimbursement of health care services that makes available to enrolled individuals information on health, health care, the pricing of health care, and the pricing of health care services by particular providers. Such plan may, but is not required to, include a spending account feature and may either rely upon indemnity reimbursements for services or contracted amounts for health care services from providers.
  2. "Plan" means an agreement between an individual and a plan sponsor or a declaration by an individual which defines services and benefit levels for which reimbursements will be made.
  3. "Plan sponsor" means the group or individual entering into a contract with an insurer under which the insurer provides reimbursement to the plan for expenditures or obligations incurred for the provision of health care services over and above a certain attachment point.
  4. "Spending account" includes, but is not limited to, medical spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, pre-tax benefit spending accounts, and other forms of funding for health care goods and services. As such, the source of funding may be from an individual, an employer, an employee, or a combination of sources, as appropriate.

(Code 1981, §33-30B-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 912, § 1.)

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2003, "a" was substituted for "an" in the last sentence of paragraph (4).


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