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Golden Rule Insurance Company is owned by UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest health insurers in the U.S. According to Annual Form 10-K 12/31/18, UnitedHealthcare provides over 27 million Americans access to health care. Additionally, the UnitedHealthcare Choice and Choice Plus networks provide access to over 1.3 million network providers. Golden Rule Insurance Company has provided individual and family health insurance for over 60 years. Today Golden Rule markets the individual under 65 products for UnitedHealthcare or UnitedHealthOne.

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Golden Rule Insurance Company offers private health insurance options. The portfolio includes:

• • • The new Health ProtectorGuard – A Fixed Indemnity plan option for Doctor and Hospital Coverage
    • Short Term Medical – Fill the Gaps between open enrollment
    • Dental and Vision Insurance – A variety of plan options to choose from.
    • Critical illness – Cancer, Heart Attack, Stroke – Money when you need it most
    • Accident Coverage – A plus for families, 1st dollar coverage

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  Why Choose Golden Rule Insurance?

• Golden Rule has multiple individual and family health insurance products to help provide a variety of options for coverage.
• Some of the strongest health care networks across the nation.
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The IHC Group has some of the most affordable health insurance in Maryland. When circumstances leave you temporarily uninsured, the Connect Value short-term medical insurance plan helps protect you during coverage gaps. Value Connect is an affordable way for Maryland residents to avoid going without health insurance.

Read below for more information about this exciting product.

Office Visit Copay – $50
The copay applies to the first covered office visit during the policy period. After the copay, the balance of the doctor office visit charge is covered at 100 percent. Additional covered expenses incurred during the office visit, including expenses for laboratory and diagnostic tests will be subject to plan deductible and coinsurance.

Looking for more coverage, learn about Learn about Other Plans in Maryland.

Maximum benefit $1,000,000

View an online health insurance quote.

Plan Coverage
All benefits, except office visits applied to the copay, are subject to the selected plan deductible and coinsurance. Covered expenses are limited by the usual and reasonable charge as well as any benefit-specific maximum. If a benefit-specific maximum does not apply to the
covered expense, benefits are limited by the coverage period maximum. Benefits may vary by state.

Deductible – $1,000 | $2,500 | $5,000

The selected deductible must be paid by the covered person before coinsurance benefits begin. Family deductible maximum: Three times the individual deductible amount.

Coinsurance percentage and out-of-pocket costs
After the deductible has been met, you pay the selected percentage of covered expenses until the out-of-pocket amount has been reached.
The Connect Value plan covers the remaining percentage of covered expenses up to the maximum benefit. The out-of-pocket amount is specific to expenses applied to coinsurance; it does not include the deductible.

Utilize a network provider and Save
With your Connect Value short-term medical plan, you have the freedom to choose any provider. In certain markets, you also have access to discounted medical services through national preferred provider organizations (PPOs). These network providers have agreed to
negotiated prices for their services and supplies. While you have the flexibility to choose any healthcare provider, the discounts available through network providers for covered services may help to lower your out-of-pocket costs. At the time of service, simply present your identification card, which will include the network information needed for the provider to correctly process covered billed charges.

Why short term medical insurance?
When you are temporarily between major medical policies or waiting for coverage to begin, short-term plans provide benefits to help pay for unexpected healthcare. Covered expenses may include emergency room treatment, hospital stays, surgery, intensive care and more.

Underwritten by Independence American Insurance Company, (IAIC), a member of The IHC Group. For more information about IAIC and The IHC Group, visit www.ihcgroup.com. This product is not considered to be Minimum Essential Coverage as defined by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This product is administered by The Loomis Company.

Connect Value offers short-term medical coverage with an affordable premium
Connect Value’s low premium is achieved through carefully selected benefit limitations. Coverage is available in most states for 30 to 90 days. Short-term medical insurance is not a substitute for a major medical plan that meets the minimum essential coverage levels as defined by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ACA. It can, however, offer financial protection in the event of an unexpected injury or illness while you are waiting for coverage to begin under an ACA compliant plan.

Waiting for an ACA plan
Many plans on the Health Insurance Exchange offer only one effective date, the first of the month. Depending on when you submit your application, you may have to wait up to 45 days for your coverage to begin.

Newly hired
Often, an employer-sponsored plan includes a waiting period before health insurance benefits begin.

Missed Open Enrollment
If you have missed the opportunity to secure coverage during the open enrollment period, you may be ineligible to buy a major medical policy until the next open enrollment period, unless you have a qualifying event.

Can I Apply?
Connect Value is available to the primary applicant from age 18 to 64, his or her spouse age 18 to 64 and dependent children under the age of 26. A child-only plan is available for children age 2 up to age 18.

Covered Services Include Treatment for services and supplies for:
• Inpatient hospital room, board and general nursing care up to the amount billed for a semi-private room or 90 percent of the private room billed amount, not to exceed $10,000 per day
• Inpatient intensive care or specialized care unit up to three times the amount billed for a semi-private room or three times 90 percent the private room billed amount, not to exceed $12,500 per day
• Inpatient doctor visits not to exceed $500 per confinement
• Inpatient prescription drugs administered while hospital confined
• Emergency room up to $500 per day
• Office visits not paid through a copay will be subject to deductible and coinsurance, not to exceed a maximum benefit of $1,000 per covered person
• Outpatient hospital surgery or ambulatory surgical center charges not to exceed $1,000 per day
• Surgeon services in the hospital or ambulatory surgical center not to exceed $2,500 per surgery
• Anesthesiologist services not to exceed the maximum benefit of 20 percent of the surgeon’s benefit
• Assistant surgeon services not to exceed 20 percent of the primary surgeon’s covered charges
• Surgeon’s assistant services not to exceed 15 percent of the primary surgeon’s covered charges
• Ground ambulance services not to exceed $250 per occurrence
• Air ambulance services not to exceed $250 per occurrence
• Organ, tissue, or bone marrow transplants not to exceed $150,000 per coverage period
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) not to exceed $10,000 per coverage period
• Outpatient hospital surgery or ambulatory surgical center not to exceed the maximum benefit of $1,000 per day

Pre-certification
Pre-certification is required prior to each inpatient confinement for injury or illness, including chemotherapy or radiation treatment at least seven days prior to receiving treatment. Emergency admissions must be pre-certified within 48 hours following the admission, or
as soon as reasonably possible. Failure to complete pre-certification will result in a benefit reduction of 50 percent which would have otherwise been paid. Pre-certification is not a guarantee of benefits and may vary by state.

Pre-existing Condition Limitation
Connect Value will not provide benefits for any loss caused by or resulting from a pre-existing condition. A pre-existing condition is any medical condition or sickness for which medical advice, care, diagnosis, treatment, consultation or medication was recommended or received from a doctor within five years* immediately preceding the covered person’s effective date of coverage; or symptoms within the five years immediately prior to the coverage that would cause a reasonable person to seek diagnosis, care or treatment.
*In the following states, the pre-existing condition time period is 6 months: GA, ID, KY, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, WA, WY.

Coverage termination
Coverage ends on the earliest of the date: the premium is not paid when due; you enter full-time active duty in the armed forces; or Independence American Insurance Company determines intentional fraud or material misrepresentation has been made in filing a claim for benefits. A dependent’s coverage ends on the earliest of the date: your coverage terminates; the dependent becomes eligible for Medicare; or the dependent ceases to be eligible.

Continuing coverage
If your need for temporary health insurance continues, most states allow you to apply for another short-term medical plan. Your application is subject to eligibility, underwriting requirements and state availability of the coverage. The next coverage period is not a
continuation of the previous period; it is a new plan with a new deductible, coinsurance and pre-existing condition limitation.

Exclusions
The Policy does not provide any benefits for the following expenses:
• Treatment of pre-existing conditions, as defined in the pre-existing conditions limitation provision, shown in the Policy
• Incurred prior to the effective date of a covered person’s coverage or incurred after the expiration date, regardless of
when the condition originated, except in accordance with the extension of benefits provision
• Treatment, services & supplies for:
• complications resulting from treatment, drugs, supplies, devices, procedures or conditions which are not covered
under the Policy;
• experimental or investigational services or treatment or unproven services or treatment;
• Amounts in excess of the usual, reasonable and customary charges made for covered services or supplies or you or your
covered dependent are not required to pay, or which would not have been billed, if no insurance existed;
• Paid under another insurance plan, including Medicare, government institutions, workers’ compensation or automobile insurance
• Expenses incurred by a covered person while on active duty in the armed forces. Upon written notice to us of entry into such active duty, the unused premium will be returned to you on a pro-rated basis
• Treatment, services and supplies resulting from:
• war (declared or undeclared);
• the commission of engaging in an illegal occupation;
• normal pregnancy or childbirth, except for complications of pregnancy;
• a newborn child not yet discharged from the hospital, unless the charges are medically necessary to treat premature birth, congenital injury or sickness, or sickness or injury sustained during or after birth;
• voluntary termination of normal pregnancy, normal childbirth or elective cesarean section;
• any drug, including birth control pills, implants, injections, supply, treatment device or procedure that prevents conception or childbirth, including sterilization or reversal of sterilization; sex transformation (unless required by law), penile implants, sex dysfunction or inadequacies and/or diagnosis and treatment of infertility, including but not limited to any attempt to induce fertilization by any method, invitro fertilization, artificial insemination or similar procedures, whether the covered person is a donor, recipient or surrogate.
• Physical exams or prophylactic treatment, including surgery or diagnostic testing, except as specifically covered
• Mental illness or substance use, including alcoholism or drug addiction or loss due to intoxication of any kind unless
mandated by law
• Tobacco use cessation
• Suicide or attempted suicide or intentionally self-inflicted Injury, while sane or insane
• Dental treatment or care or orthodontia or other treatment involving the teeth or supporting structures, except as specifically covered and the treatment by any method for jaw joint problems including temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ), TMJ pain syndromes, craniomandibular disorders, myofascial pain dysfunction or other conditions of the joint linking the jaw bone and skull and the complex of muscles, nerves and other tissues related to the joint
• Eye care, hearing, including hearing aids and testing
• Cosmetic or reconstructive procedures that are not medically necessary, breast reduction or augmentation or complications arising from these procedures
• Outpatient prescriptions, drugs to treat hair loss
• Feet unless due to accidental bodily injury or disease
• Weight loss programs or diets, obesity treatment or weight reduction including all forms of intestinal and gastric bypass
surgery, including the reversal of such surgery
• Transportation expenses, except as specifically covered
• Rest or recuperation cures or care in an extended care facility, convalescent nursing home, a facility providing rehabilitative treatment, skilled nursing facility, or home for the aged, whether or not part of a hospital
• Providing a covered person with (1) training in the requirements of daily living; (2) instruction in scholastic skills such as reading and writing; (3) preparation for an occupation; (4) treatment of learning disabilities, developmental delays or dyslexia; or (5) development beyond a point where function has been demonstrably restored
• Personal comfort or convenience, including homemaker services or supportive services focusing on activities of daily life that do not require the skills of qualified technical or professional personnel, including bathing, dressing, feeding, routine skin care, bladder care and administration of oral medications or eye drops;
• Supplies provided by a member of your immediate family
• Sleeping disorders
• Expenses incurred in the treatment of injury or sickness resulting from participation in skydiving, scuba diving, hang or ultralight gliding, riding an all-terrain vehicle such as a dirt bike, snowmobile or go-cart, racing with a motorcycle, boat or any form of aircraft, any participation in sports for pay or profit, or participation in rodeo contests
• Bone stimulator, common household items
• Participating in interscholastic, intercollegiate or organized competitive sports
• Medical care, treatment, service or supplies received outside of the United States, Canada or its possessions
• Spinal manipulation or adjustment
• Private duty nursing services
• The repair or maintenance of a wheelchair, hospital-type bed or similar durable medical equipment
• Orthotics
• Marital counseling or social counseling
• Acupuncture
• Expenses for replacement of artificial limbs or eyes, removal of breast implants
• Treatment, services or supplies not defined or specifically covered under the Policy

About The IHC Group
Independence Holding Company (NYSE: IHC), formed in 1980, is a holding company that is principally engaged in underwriting, administering and/or distributing group and individual specialty benefit products, including disability, supplemental health, pet, and group life insurance through its subsidiaries (Independence Holding Company and its subsidiaries collectively referred to as “The IHC Group”). The IHC Group consists of three insurance companies (Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York, Madison National Life Insurance Company, Inc. and Independence American Insurance Company), and IHC Specialty Benefits, Inc., a technology-driven full-service marketing and distribution company that focuses on small employer and individual consumer products through general agents, telebrokerage, call centers, advisors, private label arrangements, independent agents, and through the following brands: www.HealtheDeals.com; Health eDeals Advisors; Aspira A Mas; www.PetPartners.com; and www.PetPlace.com.