Tex. Insurance Code § 1201.104
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 1201.104, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 1201.104. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR BENEFITS.
Official statutory text
(a) For individual accident and health insurance policies, the commissioner shall adopt rules establishing minimum standards for benefits under each of the following categories of coverage:
(1) basic hospital expense;
(2) basic medical-surgical expense;
(3) hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity;
(4) major medical expense;
(5) disability income protection;
(6) accident only;
(7) specified disease;
(8) specified accident; and
(9) limited benefit.
(b) This section does not prohibit the issuance of an individual accident and health insurance policy that combines categories of coverage listed by this section.
(1) basic hospital expense;
(2) basic medical-surgical expense;
(3) hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity;
(4) major medical expense;
(5) disability income protection;
(6) accident only;
(7) specified disease;
(8) specified accident; and
(9) limited benefit.
(b) This section does not prohibit the issuance of an individual accident and health insurance policy that combines categories of coverage listed by this section.
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