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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.

Added by Laws 1984, c. 294, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1984. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 255, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 1987, c. 192, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1987.


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