INSURANCE COVERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insurance coverage mean? 

• INSURANCE COVERAGE (noun)
  The noun INSURANCE COVERAGE has 1 sense:

1. the total amount and type of insurance carried

  Familiarity information: INSURANCE COVERAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSURANCE COVERAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The total amount and type of insurance carried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

coverage; insurance coverage

Hypernyms ("insurance coverage" is a kind of...):

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

 Context examples 

The Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage for many people in the U.S.

(Health Insurance, NIH)

The effect of insurance coverage on medical care and practices.

(Insurance and Payment Issues, NCI Thesaurus)

Public Law 104-91, enacted in 1996, is designed to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs.

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Thesaurus)

But test results might help a person make life decisions, such as family planning or insurance coverage.

(Genetic Testing, NIH: National Human Genome Research Institute)

HIPAA amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to provide improved portability and continuity of health insurance coverage, extending earlier provisions under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA).

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Thesaurus)