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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="15-417" title_number="15" title_name="Health Insurance" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Eligibility for Coverage; Continuation and Conversion of Policies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>insurers and nonprofit health service plans that provide hospital, medical, or surgical benefits to individuals or groups on an expense-incurred basis under health insurance policies or contracts that are issued or delivered in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>health maintenance organizations that provide hospital, medical, or surgical benefits to individuals or groups under contracts that are issued or delivered in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An entity subject to this section that provides health benefits to full-time students over the age of 18 may not exclude health benefits for a student over the age of 18 who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is enrolled less than full time as a result of a documented disability that prevents the student from maintaining a full-time course load; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is maintaining a course load of at least 7 credit hours per semester.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An entity subject to this section may require the insured, subscriber, or enrollee to provide verification of the disability from a disability services professional employed by the institution of higher education that the student attends or a health care provider with special expertise in and knowledge of the disability.</text>
  </level>
</section>
