In this chapter:
I. "
Commissioner
" means the insurance commissioner.
II. "
Plan document
" means evidence of coverage furnished to a student that sets forth all benefits and terms and conditions, with regard to a student health plan.
III. "
Qualified actuary
" means an actuary who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries or Society of Actuaries, with experience in establishing rates for self-insured trusts providing health benefits or other similar experience.
IV. "
Institution of higher education
" or "
institution
" means an educational institution in New Hampshire that:
(a) Admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate, or persons who have completed a secondary school education in a home school setting that is treated as a home school or private school under the laws of this state;
(b) Is legally authorized within New Hampshire to provide a program of education beyond secondary education;
(c) Provides an educational program for which the institution awards a bachelor’s degree, graduate degree, or professional degree;
(d) Is a public or other nonprofit institution;
(e) Is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association; and
(f) Has a history of providing for the health insurance needs of its students through a self-funded student health benefit plan.
V. "
Student
" means a person enrolled in a degree program in an institution of higher education and may include a postdoctoral fellow.
VI. "
Student health plan
" or "
plan
" means any self-funded plan established or maintained by an institution of higher education for the purpose of providing medical, surgical, or hospital services to a student, the student’s spouse or domestic partner, the student’s child or children, or other persons chiefly dependent upon the student for support and maintenance.
Source. 2016, 257:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.