Definition and meaning of health insurance :

health insurance: Coverage that provides benefits as a result of sickness or injury. Policies include insurance for losses from accident, medical expense, disability, or accidental death and dismemberment.

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Definition and meaning of Health Insurance :

Health Insurance: Insurance against financial losses resulting from sickness or accidental bodily injury.

(Source: The Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary )

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Definition and meaning of Health Insurance :

Health Insurance: Protection which provide payment of benefits for covered sickness or injury. Included under this heading are various types of insurance such as accident insurance, disability income insurance, medical expense insurance, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

(Source: The Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary )

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Definition and meaning of Health Insurance :

Health Insurance: Insurance providing for the payment of benefits as a result of sickness or injury. Includes various types of insurance such as accident insurance, disability income insurance, medical expense insurance, accidental death insurance, and dismemberment insurance.

(Source: The Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary )

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Definition and meaning of Credit Health Insurance :

Credit Health Insurance:  A group disability income insurance contract whereby a creditor is protected in the event of the total disability of a debtor. The policy will pay benefits equal to the monthly installment of the debtor. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Group Health Insurance :

Group Health Insurance:  The same definition as Life Insurance but with the application to Health Insurance coverages. See Group Life Insurance. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Health Insurance, HI :

Health Insurance (HI):  . Insurance against loss by sickness or bodily injury. The generic form for those forms of insurance that provide lump sum or periodic payments in the event of loss occasioned by bodily injury, sickness or disease, and medical expense. The term Health Insurance is now used to replace such terms as Accident Insurance, Sickness Insurance, Medical Expense Insurance, Accidental Death Insurance, and Dismemberment Insurance. The form is sometimes called Accident and Health, Accident and Sickness, Accident, or Disability Income Insurance. (H)

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Definition and meaning of National Health Insurance :

National Health Insurance:  Any system of socialized insurance benefits covering all or nearly all of the citizens of a country, established by its federal law, administered by its federal government, and supported or subsidized by taxation. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Health History :

Health History:  A form used by underwriters to assist in evaluating groups or individuals to determine whether they are acceptable risks. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Health Services :

Health Services:  The benefits covered under a health contract. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Health Plan :

Health Plan:  This refers to any kind of plan that covers health care services such as HMOs, insured plans, preferred provider organizations, etc. (H)

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Definition and meaning of ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE :

ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE: Coverage for accidental injury, accidental death, and related health expenses. Benefits will pay for preventative services, medical expenses and catastrophic care, with limits.

(Source: Insurance Information Institute )

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Definition and meaning of Credit Insurance :

Credit Insurance:  Insurance on a debtor in favor of a creditor to pay off the balance due on a loan in the event of the death or disability of the debtor. Liability Insurance for abnormal loss from bad debts. (LI,H)

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Definition and meaning of Dental Insurance :

Dental Insurance:  A group Health Insurance contract that provides payment for certain enumerated dental services. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Franchise Insurance :

Franchise Insurance:  A plan for covering groups of persons with individual policies having uniform provisions, although they may differ in benefits. Individual contracts are issued to each person with individual underwriting. It is usually applied to groups too small to qualify for true group coverage, and the solicitation of cases usually takes place among an employer's work force with his consent. In Life Insurance, it is sometimes called Wholesale Insurance. Contrast with True Group Insurance. (LI,H)***

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Definition and meaning of Fraternal Insurance :

Fraternal Insurance:  Insurance offered a special group of people, namely, members of a lodge or a fraternal order. Such insurance may be written on an assessment basis or on a legal reserve basis. (LI,H)***

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Definition and meaning of Evidence of Insurability :

Evidence of Insurability:  The statement of information needed for the underwriting of an insurance policy. (LI,H)

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Definition and meaning of Blanket Insurance :

Blanket Insurance:  A contract of Health Insurance that covers all of a class of persons not individually identified in the contract. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Accident Insurance :

Accident Insurance:  A form of insurance against loss by accidental bodily injury to the insured. (H)

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Definition and meaning of Hospitalization Insurance :

Hospitalization Insurance:  A form of insurance that provides reimbursement within contractual limits for hospital and specific related expenses arising from hospitalization caused by injury or sickness. (H)

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