This subchapter 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) 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(g)(1), 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 1358.101;
5. (5) health and accident coverage provided by a risk pool created under Chapter 172, Local Government Code; or
6. (6) a workers' compensation insurance policy.

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 589 (S.B. 827), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.