* The benefits may be paid directly to the hospital or other health care facility if an assignment of benefits is made by the policyholder.

** Pre-existing conditions are those medical conditions disclosed or not disclosed on the application which were diagnosed or for which medical advice or treatment was recommended or received from a Doctor within a 12-month period immediately preceding the Effective Date of Your coverage. Any loss due to a pre-existing condition is not covered unless the loss begins more than 12 months* after the Effective Date of coverage. *The pre-existing condition waiting period is 6 months in Idaho and Oregon.

Wyoming Applicants Only – Your Pre-existing Conditions Limitation reads:
The policy will not cover loss resulting from pre-existing conditions during the first year that your policy is in force. A "pre-existing condition" is any sickness or injury diagnosed for which You received medical advice and /or treatment was received from or recommended by a Physician within the 90 day period immediately before the effective date of Your coverage, or the effective date of an increase in coverage, whichever is applicable

*** The insurer has the right to increase premium rates of all like policies in your state.

**** Instead of age 19 the following states have higher limits: Indiana age 24, New Mexico age 25, North Dakota age 22 and Utah age 26.

***** Hospital confinement must be medically necessary because of injury or sickness. Our definition of hospital excludes (a) a convalescent home, convalescent, rest or nursing facility; or, (b) a facility or portion thereof used primarily for the care of the aged, the terminally ill, drug or alcoholic rehabilitation, or primarily affording custodial, long-term nursing, convalescent or educational care.