Oklahoma § 70-697.23 - Definitions

§ 70-697.23. Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act:

1. "Eligible hospital" means a hospital which qualifies for new

residency training programs under the rules established by the

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or other federal entities

authorized to establish residency training programs;

2. "Residency training program" means post-medical-school

graduate training programs approved by the Centers for Medicare and

Medicaid Services and accredited by the appropriate governing bodies

of either the osteopathic or allopathic professions in the training

disciplines of family medicine, general internal medicine, general

pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology and emergency medicine; and

3. “Medically underserved areas” means areas having too few

primary care providers, high infant mortality, high poverty, a high

elderly population, and/or a population census of at least fifty

percent (50%) Medicare, Medicaid and uninsured mix.

Added by Laws 2012, c. 348, § 2, eff. July 1, 2012.