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Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-61-103

Applicability and scope

Known as the Tennessee Health Carrier Grievance and External Review Procedure Act

The act spans §§ 56–56 (25 sections).

Acts 2010, ch. 980, § 4.

(1) Except as otherwise specified, this chapter shall apply to all health carriers.

(2) This chapter shall not apply to a policy or certificate that provides: Coverage only for a specified disease, specified accident or accident-only coverage, credit, dental, disability income, hospital indemnity, long-term care insurance, as defined by § 56-42-103, vision care or any other limited supplemental benefit or to a medicare supplement policy of insurance as defined by the commissioner;

(3) Coverage under a plan through medicare, medicaid or the federal employees health benefits program (FEHB);

(4) Any coverage issued under 10 U.S.C. § 1072 and any coverage issued as supplement to that coverage;

(5) Any coverage issued as supplemental to liability insurance; workers' compensation or similar insurance; automobile medical-payment insurance or any insurance under which benefits are payable without regard to fault; whether written on a group blanket or individual basis; or

(6) Any plan exempt from regulation under this title due to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (29 U.S.C. § 1144).

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.