Arizona Revised Statutes Title 20. Insurance § 20-846. Individual health insurance policies; mandatory coverage exemption; definitions

(a) Means a health care plan or arrangement that pays for or furnishes medical or health services and that is issued by a disability insurer, group disability insurer, blanket disability insurer, health care services organization, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation or medical, hospital, dental and optometric service corporation or a similar entity in another state.

(b) Includes a self-insured or self-funded employee benefit plan or multiemployer employee benefit plan created pursuant to 29 United States Code § 186(c) if the regulation of that plan is preempted by § 514(b) of the employee retirement insurance security act of 1974 (29 United States Code § 1144(b)).

(c) Does not include limited benefit coverage as defined in § 20-1137.

(a) Not had health insurance coverage for the ninety days immediately before the effective date of coverage issued pursuant to this section, except that this requirement does not apply at the renewal of coverage pursuant to this section.

(b) Lost health insurance coverage in one of the following ways within ninety days immediately before the effective date of coverage issued pursuant to this section: