{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-1708.1c","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1708.1C","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Affordable Access to Health Care Act, the\n\nfollowing words, terms, or phrases shall have the following\n\nmeanings, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates:\n\n1. “Health care provider” means any person or other entity who\n\nis licensed pursuant to the provisions of Title 59 or Title 63 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes, or pursuant to the laws of another state, to\n\nrender health care services in the practice of a profession or in\n\nthe ordinary course of business;\n\n2. “Health care services” means any services provided by a\n\nhealth care provider, or by an individual working for or under the\n\nsupervision of a health care provider, that relate to the diagnosis,\n\nassessment, prevention, treatment or care of any human illness,\n\ndisease, injury or condition;\n\n3. “Medical liability action” means any civil action involving,\n\nor contingent upon, personal injury or wrongful death brought\n\nagainst a health care provider based on professional negligence;\n\n4. “Noneconomic damages” means all subjective, nonmonetary\n\nlosses including, but not limited to, pain, suffering,\n\ninconvenience, mental anguish, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment\n\nof life, loss of society and companionship, loss of consortium,\n\ninjury to reputation and humiliation; provided, however,\n\n“noneconomic damages” do not include exemplary damages, as defined\n\nin Section 9.1 of Title 23 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n5. “Professional negligence” means a negligent act or omission\n\nto act by a health care provider in the rendering of health care\n\nservices, provided that such services are within the scope of\n\nservices for which the health care provider is licensed, certified,\n\nor otherwise authorized to render by the laws of this state, and\n\nwhich are not within any restriction imposed by a hospital or the\n\nlicensing agency of the health care provider; and\n\n6. “Qualified expert” means a health care provider who has\n\nknowledge of standards of care for the diagnosis, assessment,\n\nprevention, treatment or care of the illness, disease, injury or\n\ncondition involved in the medical liability action. In a case\n\ninvolving a claim for negligent credentialing or corporate\n\nnegligence, a “qualified expert” means a physician or administrator\n\nwho has or has had responsibility for credentialing or served on a\n\nmedical staff committee involved in a credentialing process at the\n\nlicensed health care entity.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"f6e8c3be85c19c96a26b6ec4ba5bc334eba6571f7c2a55598bde0f2b78bf8c2b","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-1708.1b","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-1708.1d"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}