Cal. INS § 12683
This is the official text of Cal. INS § 12683, part of California’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the insurance policies sold in California.
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Official statutory text
Subject to the provisions and conditions of this part, if the group policy from which conversion is made covers the employee or member for basic hospital or surgical expense, the employee or member shall be entitled to obtain a converted policy providing at least the following minimum benefits:
(a) Plan A.
(1) Hospital room and board daily expense benefits up to two hundred dollars ($200) for a duration of 70 days.
(2) Miscellaneous hospital expense benefits up to an amount of 10 times the hospital room and board daily expense benefits.
(3) Surgical expense benefits according to a surgical procedures schedule consistent with those customarily offered by the insurer under a group or individual health insurance policy and providing a maximum benefit of four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800).
(b) Plan B—75 percent of the dollar amounts of Plan A.
(c) Plan C—50 percent of the dollar amounts of Plan A.
(d) The maximum dollar amount for Plan A’s hospital room and board daily expense and surgical benefit may be redetermined by the Insurance Commissioner as to conversion coverage issued subsequent to that redetermination. The redetermination shall not be made more often than once in three years. The maximum dollar amount redetermined by the commissioner for hospital room and board shall not exceed 80 percent of the average semiprivate room rate then charged in the state.
(e) Covered expenses under this section shall include benefits for expense incurred by the employee, member, or spouse in connection with pregnancy, provided that:
(1) The pregnancy commenced while covered under the group policy from which conversion was made.
(2) The expense is of a type which would have been covered under such group policy.
(3) The conversion policy is in force when the expense is incurred.
(a) Plan A.
(1) Hospital room and board daily expense benefits up to two hundred dollars ($200) for a duration of 70 days.
(2) Miscellaneous hospital expense benefits up to an amount of 10 times the hospital room and board daily expense benefits.
(3) Surgical expense benefits according to a surgical procedures schedule consistent with those customarily offered by the insurer under a group or individual health insurance policy and providing a maximum benefit of four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800).
(b) Plan B—75 percent of the dollar amounts of Plan A.
(c) Plan C—50 percent of the dollar amounts of Plan A.
(d) The maximum dollar amount for Plan A’s hospital room and board daily expense and surgical benefit may be redetermined by the Insurance Commissioner as to conversion coverage issued subsequent to that redetermination. The redetermination shall not be made more often than once in three years. The maximum dollar amount redetermined by the commissioner for hospital room and board shall not exceed 80 percent of the average semiprivate room rate then charged in the state.
(e) Covered expenses under this section shall include benefits for expense incurred by the employee, member, or spouse in connection with pregnancy, provided that:
(1) The pregnancy commenced while covered under the group policy from which conversion was made.
(2) The expense is of a type which would have been covered under such group policy.
(3) The conversion policy is in force when the expense is incurred.
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