California Insurance Code ARTICLE 7 - Preexisting Condition Provisions

• Section 10198.6.
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Health benefit plan” means any group or individual policy of health insurance, as defined in Section...
• Section 10198.61.
  (a) For purposes of this article, “health benefit plan” does not include policies or certificates of specified disease or hospital confinement indemnity provided that the carrier...
• Section 10198.7.
  (a) A health benefit plan for group coverage shall not impose any preexisting condition provision or waivered condition provision upon any individual.(b) (1) A nongrandfathered health benefit plan...
• Section 10198.8.
  This article applies to all health benefit plans that provide benefits to residents of this state regardless of the situs of the contract or group...
• Section 10198.9.
  A health benefit plan for group coverage shall not establish rules for eligibility, including continued eligibility, of an individual, or dependent of an individual, to...
• Section 10198.10.
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2014.(Repealed (in Sec. 12) and added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 852, Sec. 11. (AB 1083) Effective January...

Last modified: October 22, 2018