Defining a Characteristic for a Fully-Insured Group Policy Plan

Prerequisites

To define a characteristic for a fully-insured group policy plan, you should have:

  • Characteristic types defined in the application (where the characteristic entity is set to Policy Plan).

Procedure

To define a characteristic for a fully-insured group policy plan:

  1. Ensure that the Characteristics section is expanded when you are defining or editing a fully-insured group policy plan.

    The Characteristics section contains the following fields in a grid:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Effective Date Used to specify the date from when the characteristic is effective for the fully-insured group policy plan.
    Note: The effective date cannot be earlier than the policy plan start date and later than the policy plan end date.
    		 Yes (Conditional)
    Note: This field is required when you are defining a characteristic for the fully-insured group policy plan.
    Characteristic Type Used to indicate the characteristic type.
    Note: The list includes only those characteristic types where the characteristic entity is set to Policy Plan.
    		 Yes (Conditional)
    Note: This field is required when you are defining a characteristic for the fully-insured group policy plan.
    Characteristic Value Used to specify the value for the characteristic type.
    Note:

    If you select a predefined characteristic type, the Search (The Search Icon) icon appears corresponding to the Characteristic Value field. On clicking the Search icon, the Predefined Characteristic Search window appears.

    On specifying the value for a predefined characteristic type, the description of the characteristic value appears corresponding to the Characteristic Value field.

    		 Yes (Conditional)
    Note: This field is required when you are defining a characteristic for the fully-insured group policy plan.
  2. Enter the required details in the Characteristics section.
  3. If you want to define more than one characteristic for the fully-insured group policy plan, click the Add (The Add Icon) icon and then repeat step 2.
    Note: However, if you want to remove a characteristic from the fully-insured group policy plan, click the Delete (The Delete Icon) icon corresponding to the characteristic.
  4. Click Save.
    The characteristics are defined for the fully-insured group policy plan.

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