40-2,116. Definitions. As used in this act:
(a) "Contracting facility" means a health facility that has entered into a contract with a service corporation to provide services to subscribers of the service corporation.
(b) "Contracting professional provider" means a professional provider who has entered into a contract with a service corporation to provide services to subscribers of the service corporation.
(c) "Health facility" means a medical care facility as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto; psychiatric hospital licensed under K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 39-2001 et seq., and amendments thereto; adult care home, but such term shall be limited to nursing facility, assisted living facility and residential health care facility as such terms are defined in K.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 a contracting facility, of services for which benefits are provided under contracts issued by a service corporation.
(e) "Service corporation" means a nonprofit medical and hospital service corporation organized under the provisions of K.S.A. 40-19c01 et seq., and amendments thereto.
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; L. 2018, ch. 71, § 14; July 1.
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