health insurance issuer

(2) Health insurance issuer The term “health insurance issuer” means an insurance company, insurance service, or insurance organization (including a health maintenance organization, as defined in paragraph (3)) which is licensed to engage in the business of insurance in a State and which is subject to State law which regulates insurance (within the meaning of section 514(b)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [ 29 U.S.C. 1144(b)(2) ]). Such term does not include a group health plan.

Source

42 USC § 300gg-91(b)(2)


Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (part C) of this section.
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