Health insurance coverage under any of the following: a group health plan; individual health insurance; student health insurance; Medicare; Medicaid; CHAMPUS and TRICARE; the Federal Employees Health [..]

See "creditable coverage (Medigap)" or "creditable prescription drug coverage."

Previous health insurance coverage that can be used to shorten a pre-existing condition waiting period under a Medigap policy.

Term means that benefits provided by other drug plans are at least as good as those provided by the new Medicare Part D program. This may be important to people eligible for Medicare Part D but who do [..]

Definition The amount of prior coverage a client had before he / she enrolled in a new insurance plan. If there was not a lapse of more than 63 days of coverage between the change in policies, the pri [..]

Creditable coverage refers to a health insurance coverage that a beneficiary had before enrolling to the current health plan and it generally includes a period of coverage not interrupted by a period [..]

Health coverage you have had in the past, such as group health plan, Medicare, Medicaid, or other, and which was not interrupted by a significant break in coverage. The time period of this prior coverage must be applied toward any pre-existing condition exclusion imposed by a new health plan. Usually, creditable coverage may be any health insurance [..]

Certain kinds of previous health insurance coverage that can be used to shorten a pre-existing condition waiting period under a Medigap policy. See also Pre-existing condition.

Also known as prior creditable coverage.  This term means types of health coverage a person has had. People sometimes need to prove they have had this so they can be fully covered by a new plan.

Term means that benefits provided by other drug plans are at least as good as those provided by the new Medicare Part D program. This may be important to people eligible for Medicare Part D but who do not sign up at their first opportunity because if the other plans provide creditable coverage, plan members can later convert to Medicare Part D with [..]

Is health coverage that you had in the past that gives you certain rights when you apply for new coverage.

Health insurance coverage that an individual had before enrolling in his/her current health plan. Generally includes a period of coverage not interrupted by 63 or more days. Coverage must be at a certain level to be creditable.

A certificate of creditable coverage is intended to establish an individual’s prior creditable coverage for purposes of reducing the extent to which a plan or issuer offering health insurance coverage in the group market can apply a preexisting condition exclusion.