This chapter does not apply to:

1. (1) a health benefit plan that provides coverage:

   1. (A) only for a specified disease or for another single benefit;
   2. (B) only for accidental death or dismemberment;
   3. (C) only for wages or payments in lieu of wages for a period during which an employee is absent from work because of sickness or injury;
   4. (D) as a supplement to a liability insurance policy;
   5. (E) for credit insurance;
   6. (F) only for dental or vision care;
   7. (G) only for hospital expenses; or
   8. (H) only for indemnity for hospital confinement;
2. (2) a Medicare supplemental policy as defined by Section 1882, Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1395ss);
3. (3) medical payment insurance coverage provided under a motor vehicle insurance policy;
4. (4) a long-term care insurance policy, including a nursing home fixed indemnity policy, unless the commissioner determines that the policy provides benefit coverage so comprehensive that the policy is a health benefit plan as described by Section 1217.002; or
5. (5) a workers' compensation insurance policy.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1198 (S.B. 1216), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.