Indigent care pool definition

Indigent care pool means the sum of the following:
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Indigent care pool means the Indigent Care Pool, being the successor to the Regional Bad Debt and Charity Care Pool and the Statewide Financially Distressed Hospital Pool promulgated under the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996, codified as New York Public Health Law § 2807(k), and all cash and non-cash proceeds, accretions or substitutions thereof or thereto as funded and/or provided for pursuant to any relevant statutes, rules or regulations of the State of New York or any agency or instrumentality thereof including Article 28 of the New York Public Health Law and Part 86 of Title 10 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations, as such statutes, rules and regulations may be modified from time to time.
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Related to Indigent care pool

  • Routine patient care costs means Covered Medical Expenses which are typically provided absent a clinical trial and not otherwise excluded under the Policy. Routine patient care costs do not include:

  • Medicare Levy Surcharge means an extra charge payable by high income earners beyond the standard Medicare Levy if they do not have qualifying private hospital insurance coverage. This charge is assessed as part of an individual or family’s annual tax return.

  • Nursing Care Plan means a plan of care developed by a nurse that describes the medical, nursing, psychosocial, and other needs of a child and how those needs shall be met. The Nursing Care Plan includes which tasks shall be taught, assigned, or delegated to the qualified provider or family.

  • Urgent Care Claim means a claim for medical care or treatment where making a non-urgent care decision: (a) could seriously jeopardize the life or health of the claimant or the ability of the claimant to regain maximum function, as determined by an individual acting on behalf of the plan applying the judgment of a prudent layperson who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine; or (b) in the opinion of a physician with knowledge of the claimant’s medical condition, would subject the claimant to severe pain that cannot be adequately managed without the care.

  • Inpatient care means treatment for which the insured person has to stay in a hospital for more than 24 hours for a covered event.