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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 31.11.01.03" title_num="31" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="01" heading="Applicability.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>This chapter is applicable to group health insurance policies issued or renewed in Maryland on or after October 1, 1983 and prior to January 1, 2014, except as provided in §§B—C of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>This chapter is not applicable to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Group policies providing coverage only for:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Specified diseases;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Accidental injuries;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Accidental death;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Dental benefits;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Vision care or any other supplemental benefit; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Any combination of the benefits described in §B(1)(a)—(e) of this regulation; or</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The following types of group policies:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity coverage;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Credit insurance;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Disability income insurance;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Long term care insurance as defined in Insurance Article, §18-101, Annotated Code of Maryland;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Medicare supplement contracts;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Any coverage issued under Chapter 55 of Title 10, U.S. Code, and any coverage issued as supplemental to coverage issued under Chapter 55 of Title 10, U.S. Code;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Any coverage issued as supplemental to liability insurance, Workers' Compensation, or similar insurance;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Automobile medical-payment insurance, or any insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault, whether written on a group, blanket or individual basis; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>Any combination of the insurance benefits described in §B(2)(a)—(h) of this regulation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The requirements of Regulations .09 and .10 of this chapter apply to all converted policies issued or renewed on or after April 7, 2008.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>