Okla. Stat. tit. 56, § 56-58: Definitions
Where this section sits in the code
- OK Code
- Title 56
As used in the Oklahoma Indigent Health Care Act:
1. "Department" means the Department of Human Services;
2. "Indigent" or "medically indigent" means a person or head of
household:
a. (1) with an income less than or equal to the poverty
level as designated by the latest decennial
census and insufficient personal resources to
provide for needed medical care for himself or
his dependents, and
(2) who requires medically necessary hospital or
primary health care services for himself or his
dependents for which no public or private third-
party coverage is available, and
(3) who has made no assignment, transfer, or
encumbrance of property for the purpose of
establishing eligibility for services pursuant to
a state or federal medical program or the
Oklahoma Indigent Health Care Act at any time
within the last twenty-four (24) months, or
b. with an occurrence of a catastrophic injury or illness
to himself or a dependent resulting in noncovered
incurred medical debt for hospital services or for
physician and drug costs related to a hospital stay
which exceed fifty percent (50%) of the gross annual
income of a person or head of household. Insurance
benefits for the medical debt shall be first
exhausted;
3. "Hospital" means "hospital" as that term is defined in
Section 1-701 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
4. "Clinic" means a health care facility separate from a
hospital which provides outpatient medical services to patients and
has a patient mix of at least fifty-one percent (51%) indigent
persons;
5. "Patient mix" means the composition of the patient
population based on information regarding the payor source.
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