Source: http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2012/b2011_12/statute/040_000_0000_chapter/040_034_0000_article/040_034_0001_section/040_034_0001_k/
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(b) "Basic coverage" means a policy of professional liability insurance required to be maintained by each health care provider pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of K.S.A. 40-3402, and amendments thereto.
(d) "Fiscal year" means the year commencing on the effective date of this act and each year, commencing on the first day of that month, thereafter.
(e) "Fund" means the health care stabilization fund established pursuant to subsection (a) of K.S.A. 40-3403, and amendments thereto.
(f) "Health care provider" means a person licensed to practice any branch of the healing arts by the state board of healing arts with the exception of physician assistants, a person who holds a temporary permit to practice any branch of the healing arts issued by the state board of healing arts, a person engaged in a postgraduate training program approved by the state board of healing arts, a medical care facility licensed by the department of health and environment, a health maintenance organization issued a certificate of authority by the commissioner of insurance, a podiatrist licensed by the state board of healing arts, an optometrist licensed by the board of examiners in optometry, a pharmacist licensed by the state board of pharmacy, a licensed professional nurse who is authorized to practice as a registered nurse anesthetist, a licensed professional nurse who has been granted a temporary authorization to practice nurse anesthesia under K.S.A. 65-1153, and amendments thereto, a professional corporation organized pursuant to the professional corporation law of Kansas by persons who are authorized by such law to form such a corporation and who are health care providers as defined by this subsection, a Kansas limited liability company organized for the purpose of rendering professional services by its members who are health care providers as defined by this subsection and who are legally authorized to render the professional services for which the limited liability company is organized, a partnership of persons who are health care providers under this subsection, a Kansas not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of rendering professional services by persons who are health care providers as defined by this subsection, a nonprofit corporation organized to administer the graduate medical education programs of community hospitals or medical care facilities affiliated with the university of Kansas school of medicine, a dentist certified by the state board of healing arts to administer anesthetics under K.S.A. 65-2899, and amendments thereto, a psychiatric hospital licensed under K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto, or a mental health center or mental health clinic licensed by the secretary of social and rehabilitation services, except that health care provider does not include: (1) Any state institution for people with intellectual disability; (2) any state psychiatric hospital; (3) any person holding an exempt license issued by the state board of healing arts; or (4) any person holding a visiting clinical professor license from the state board of healing arts.
(h) "Insurer" means any corporation, association, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer and any other legal entity authorized to write bodily injury or property damage liability insurance in this state, including workers compensation and automobile liability insurance, pursuant to the provisions of the acts contained in article 9, 11, 12 or 16 of chapter 40 of Kansas Statutes Annotated.
(n) "Mental health center" means a mental health center licensed by the secretary of social and rehabilitation services under K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto, except that as used in the health care provider insurance availability act such term, as it relates to insurance coverage under the health care provider insurance availability act, also includes any director, trustee, officer or administrator of a mental health center.
(o) "Mental health clinic" means a mental health clinic licensed by the secretary of social and rehabilitation services under K.S.A. 75-3307b, and amendments thereto, except that as used in the health care provider insurance availability act such term, as it relates to insurance coverage under the health care provider insurance availability act, also includes any director, trustee, officer or administrator of a mental health clinic.
History: L. 1976, ch. 231, § 1; L. 1977, ch. 165, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 186, § 22; L. 1980, ch. 142, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 199, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 207, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 177, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 166, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 183, § 14; L. 1986, ch. 229, § 24; L. 1986, ch. 231, § 4; L. 1986, ch. 184, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 181, § 2; L. 1986, ch. 181, § 3; L. 1986, ch. 181, § 4; L. 1987, ch. 176, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 177, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 242, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 178, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 178, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 246, § 12; L. 1989, ch. 143, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 174, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 175, § 1; L. 1991, ch. 139, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 156, § 2; L. 1994, ch. 181, § 3; L. 2000, ch. 162, § 14; L. 2001, ch. 204, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 128, § 19; L. 2012, ch. 91, § 33; July 1.
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