Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health › Chapter 2 - Procedures of the State Department of Health › Subchapter 27 - Contracts With Charitable Health Care Providers › Section 310:2-27-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms used in this Subchapter shall
				  have the meaning described below unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"
Charitable health care
				  provider
"
or
"charitable provider"
means a
				  person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this
				  state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or the
				  practice of a profession and who provides care to a medically indigent
				  person,
as defined in this subchapter
, with no expectation of
				  or acceptance of compensation of any kind.
[51 O.S.Supp.2007, §
				  152(3)]
"Charitable provider contract"
means an annual
				  agreement executed in compliance with this subchapter between a charitable
				  health care provider and a contracting agency for the provision of health care
				  services to the medically indigent.
"Claim"
as used in 'claims history' means any
				  written demand presented by a claimant or the claimant's authorized
				  representative to recover money as compensation for an act or omission
				  committed by a person who provides health care.
"Claims history"
means a summary of the claims
				  made against the applicant for a charitable provider contract with a
				  contracting agency, including the number of claims, a brief description of each
				  claim, the type of health care services being provided that precipitated each
				  claim, and the money that was paid, or is being paid, for each claim, if
				  any.
"Commissioner"
means the Commissioner of Health
				  and the chief executive officer of the Oklahoma State Department of
				  Health.
"Contracting agency"
means either the Oklahoma
				  State Department of Health or a city-county health department.
"Department"
means the Oklahoma State Department
				  of Health.
"Free clinic"
means a facility where the health
				  care professional receives no form of compensation as provided at 76
				  O.S.Supp.2004, § 32 and the clinic requires no form of compensation from
				  any patient.
"
Medically
				  indigent
"
means a person requiring medically necessary
				  hospital or other health care services for the person or the dependents of the
				  person who has no public or private third-party coverage, and whose personal
				  resources are insufficient to provide for needed health care
. [51
				  O.S.Supp.2007, § 152(8)]
"Person"
means a human being or natural person,
				  and does not include governmental agencies, corporations or other business
				  entities.
"Person whose personal resources are insufficient to
				  provide for needed health care"
means a person who has declared that the
				  person, or family of the person seeking health care services, does not have
				  sufficient resources to pay for the needed health care.
"Risk Management"
means the Office of the Risk
				  Management Administrator of the Department of Central Services as provided at
				  51 O.S.Supp.2006, § 156.
Added at 25 Ok Reg 507,
				  eff 12-04-07 (emergency); Added at 25 Ok Reg 2387, eff
				  7-11-08