40-2,116. Definitions.
40-2,116
40-2,116. Definitions.As used in this act:
(a) "Contracting facility" means a health facility which has entered into acontract with a service corporation to provide services to subscribers of theservice corporation.
(b) "Contracting professional provider" means a professional providerwho has entered into a contract with a service corporation to provideservices to subscribers of the service corporation.
(c) "Health facility" means a medical care facility as defined inK.S.A. 65-425 and amendments thereto; psychiatric hospital licensed underK.S.A. 75-3307b and amendments thereto; adult care home, which term shall belimited to nursingfacility, assisted living facilityand residential health care facility as such terms are defined inK.S.A. 39-923 and amendments thereto; and kidney disease treatment center,including centers not located in a medical care facility.
(d) "Professional provider" means a provider, other than acontracting facility, of services for which benefits are provided undercontracts issued by a service corporation.
(e) "Service corporation" means a nonprofit medical and hospital service corporationorganized under the provisions of K.S.A. 40-19c01 et seq., and amendmentsthereto.
History: L. 1984, ch. 173, § 1;L. 1985, ch. 208, § 2;L. 1992, ch. 322, § 10;L. 1995, ch. 143, § 4;L. 1997, ch. 8, § 5; July 1.