New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 11 - INSURANCE
Chapter 4 - ACTUARIAL SERVICES
Subchapter 53 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR SPECIFIED DISEASE AND CRITICAL ILLNESS COVERAGES
Section 11:4-53.4 - Standards for specified disease coverage
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Specified disease policies shall provide the following minimum benefits:
(b) Benefits for confinement in a skilled nursing home or for home health care are optional. If a policy provides these benefits, the policy shall provide a fixed sum benefit of at least one-fourth of the daily benefit amount payable for hospital confinement for each day of skilled nursing home confinement for at least 100 days, and for each day of home health care for at least 100 days.
(c) A lump sum payment at least equal to $ 1,000 may be made to cover non-medical costs such as travel, lodging, household costs, and other living expenses.
(d) Benefit payments shall begin with the first day of care or confinement after the effective date of coverage if the care or confinement is for a covered disease even though the diagnosis of the covered disease is made at some later date.
(e) No policy shall contain any requirement that the covered person under the policy must incur an expense in order for benefits to be paid.