Oklahoma § 63-3240.2 - Definitions

§ 63-3240.2. Definitions

As used in the Community Hospitals Authority Act:

1. “Authority” means the Community Hospitals Authority;

2. “Health care system” means a system providing inpatient and

outpatient services that is not limited to a specific facility or

modality of care;

3. “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 insufficient or no public or

private third-party coverage and whose personal resources are

insufficient to provide for needed medical care; and

4. “Participating health care system” means a health care

system that has within it a major community hospital that expends at

least Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) annually providing care

for medically indigent persons from a multicounty service area and

that is located in a municipality having a population of three

hundred seventy-five thousand (375,000) or more which does not have

a health care system statutorily charged with indigent care and

medical teaching or training responsibilities on the effective date

of the Community Hospitals Authority Act.

Added by Laws 2002, c. 374, § 4, eff. July 1, 2002. Amended by Laws

2003, c. 412, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety