65-6207. Definitions.
65-6207
65-6207. Definitions.As used inK.S.A. 2009 Supp.65-6207 to 65-6220, inclusive, and amendmentsthereto, the following have the meaningrespectively ascribed thereto, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) "Department" means the department of social and rehabilitation services.
(b) "Fund" means the health care access improvement fund.
(c) "Health maintenance organization" has the meaning provided in K.S.A.40-3202, and amendments thereto.
(d) "Hospital" has the meaning provided in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendmentsthereto.
(e) "Hospital provider" means a person licensed by the department of healthand environment to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital, regardless ofwhether the person is a federal medicaid provider.
(f) "Pharmacy provider" means an area, premises or other site wheredrugs are offered for sale, where there are pharmacists, as defined inK.S.A. 65-1626, and amendments thereto, and where prescriptions,as defined in K.S.A. 65-1626, and amendments thereto, are compounded anddispensed.
(g) "Assessment revenues" means the revenues generated directly by theassessments imposed byK.S.A. 2009 Supp.65-6208 and 65-6213, and amendmentsthereto, anypenalty assessments and all interest credited to the fund under this act, andany federal matching funds obtained through the use of such assessments,penalties and interest amounts.
History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 1; Apr. 22.