Oklahoma § 56-58 - Definitions

§ 56-58. Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Indigent Health Care Act:

1. "Department" means the Department of Human Services;

2. "Indigent" or "medically indigent" means a person or head of

household:

a.

(1) with an income less than or equal to the poverty

level as designated by the latest decennial

census and insufficient personal resources to

provide for needed medical care for himself or

his dependents, and

(2) who requires medically necessary hospital or

primary health care services for himself or his

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 56. Poor Persons

dependents for which no public or private thirdparty coverage is available, and

(3) who has made no assignment, transfer, or

encumbrance of property for the purpose of

establishing eligibility for services pursuant to

a state or federal medical program or the

Oklahoma Indigent Health Care Act at any time

within the last twenty-four (24) months, or

b.

with an occurrence of a catastrophic injury or illness

to himself or a dependent resulting in noncovered

incurred medical debt for hospital services or for

physician and drug costs related to a hospital stay

which exceed fifty percent (50%) of the gross annual

income of a person or head of household. Insurance

benefits for the medical debt shall be first

exhausted;

3. "Hospital" means "hospital" as that term is defined in

Section 1-701 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

4. "Clinic" means a health care facility separate from a

hospital which provides outpatient medical services to patients and

has a patient mix of at least fifty-one percent (51%) indigent

persons;

5. "Patient mix" means the composition of the patient

population based on information regarding the payor source.

Added by Laws 1984, c. 294, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1984. Amended by Laws

1985, c. 255, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 1987, c. 192, § 3, eff.

Nov. 1, 1987.