31-3551. ADVISORY PANEL FOR PRELITIGATION CONSIDERATION OF INDIGENT RESOURCE ELIGIBILITY CLAIMS — PROCEDURE. The counties in the state of Idaho and the health providers furnishing care to eligible medically indigent persons, as defined in section 31-3502, Idaho Code, are directed to cooperate in providing an advisory panel in the nature of a special civil grand jury and procedure for prelitigation consideration of claims arising out of contested resource availability of persons applying for indigent relief under the provisions of chapter 35, title 31, Idaho Code, which proceedings shall be informal and nonbinding, but nevertheless compulsory as a condition precedent to litigation. Proceedings conducted or maintained under the authority of this chapter shall be subject to disclosure according to chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code. Formal rules of evidence shall not apply and all such proceedings shall be expeditious and informal. The panel, thus created, will render opinions where the resource eligibility of applicants, as herein described, has been contested.
History:
[(31-3551) 31-A3502, added 1982, ch. 189, sec. 1, p. 509; am. 1990, ch. 213, sec. 28, p. 480; am. and redesig. 2005, ch. 25, sec. 41, p. 99; am. 2015, ch. 141, sec. 56, p. 420.]