As used in the Health Insurance High Risk Pool Act:

1. 1. "Agent" means any person who is licensed to sell health insurance in this state;
2. 2. "Board" means the Board of Directors of the Health Insurance High Risk Pool;
3. 3. "Health insurance" means any individual or group hospital or medical expense-incurred policy or health care benefits plan or contract. The term does not include any policy governing short-term accidents only, a fixed-indemnity policy, a limited benefit policy, a specified accident policy, a specified disease policy, a Medicare supplement policy, a long-term care policy, medical payment or personal injury coverage in a motor vehicle policy, coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance, a disability policy, or workers' compensation;
4. 4. "Insurer" means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, fraternal benefit society, or any other entity engaged in the health insurance business, except insurance agents and brokers. This term shall also include not-for-profit hospital service and medical indemnity plans, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, prepaid health plans, the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, and any reinsurer reinsuring health insurance in this state, which shall be designated as engaged in the business of insurance for the purposes of this act;
5. 5. "Medicare" means coverage under Parts A and B of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Public Law 74-271, 42 U.S.C., Section 1395 et seq., as amended);
6. 6. "Pool" means the Health Insurance High Risk Pool;
7. 7. "Physician" means a doctor of medicine and surgery, doctor of osteopathic medicine, doctor of chiropractic, doctor of podiatric medicine, doctor of optometry, and, for purposes of oral and maxiofacial surgery only, a doctor of dentistry, each duly licensed by this state;
8. 8. "Plan" means the comprehensive health insurance benefit plan as adopted by the Board of Directors of the Health Insurance High Risk Pool, or by rule; and
9. 9. "Reinsurer" means any insurer as defined in Section 103 [36-103] of this title from whom any person providing health insurance to Oklahoma insureds procures insurance for itself as the insurer, with respect to all or part of the health insurance risk of the person.

Laws 1995, HB 1346, c. 250, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1995; Amended by Laws 1996, SB 729, c. 249, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 1996; Amended by Laws 1996, HB 2553, c. 246, § 19 (repealed by Laws 1996, SB 729, c. 249, § 9, emerg. eff. May 28, 1996).