2009 Iowa Code
Title 13 - Commerce
Subtitle 1 - Insurance and Related Regulation
CHAPTER 514D - ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
514D.2 - DEFINITIONS.

        514D.2  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Accident and sickness insurance" means individual
      accident and sickness insurance within the meaning of section 514A.1.
      "Accident and sickness insurance" also means individual subscriber
      contracts for hospital service, or medical and surgical service, or
      individual pharmaceutical or optometric service issued under chapter
      514, and for purposes of this division, corporations issuing
      contracts under chapter 514 are deemed to be engaged in the business
      of insurance.
         2.  "Form" means and includes policies, contracts, riders,
      endorsements and applications used in connection with the sale of
      accident and sickness insurance under chapter 514 or chapter 514A.
         3.  "Medicare" means the Health Insurance for the Aged Act,
      title XVIII of the United States Social Security Act added by the
      amendment of 1965 as amended on or before July 1, 1980.
         4.  "Policy" means the entire contract between the insurer and
      the insured, including the policy riders, endorsements, and the
      application, if attached, and includes individual subscriber
      contracts issued under chapter 514.  

         [C81, § 514D.2]