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

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