Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 40 - INSURANCE DEPARTMENT
Article 4 - ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE
Section 40-4-27 - Same; basic medical-surgical expense coverage

Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 40-4-27

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024

"Basic medical-surgical expense coverage" means a policy of accident and sickness insurance which, for each person insured under the policy, provides coverage for the expenses incurred in providing the necessary services, rendered by a legally qualified physician, for treatment of an injury or sickness. Basic medical-surgical expense coverage shall provide at least the following:

(a) Surgical services consisting of benefits providing not less than:

(1) an amount for any procedure at least equal to $1,000, based on the relative values contained in the "relative value study" of the Kansas medical society, adopted May 5, 1966, as amended May 19, 1968; or

(2) 80 percent of the reasonable charges;

(b) Anesthesia services, consisting of administration of necessary general anesthesia and related procedures, in connection with covered surgical service, which is rendered by a physician other than the physician or the physician's assistant performing the surgical services:

(1) In an amount not less than 80 percent of the reasonable charges; or

(2) 15 percent of the surgical service benefit;

(c) In-hospital medical services, consisting of physician services rendered to a person who is a bed patient in a hospital for treatment of sickness or injury other than that for which surgical care is required, in an amount not less than:

(1) 80 percent of the reasonable charges; or

(2) $10 per day for not less than 21 days during any one period of confinement.

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