Printable Format65-6207. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 65-6207 to 65-6220, inclusive, and amendments thereto, the following have the meaning respectively ascribed thereto, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) "Department" means the Kansas department for aging and disability services or the Kansas department of health and environment, or both.
(b) "Fund" means the health care access improvement fund.
(c) "Health maintenance organization" has the meaning provided in K.S.A. 40-3202, and amendments thereto.
(d) "Hospital" has the meaning provided in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto.
(e) "Hospital provider" means a person licensed by the department of health and environment to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital, regardless of whether the person is a federal medicaid provider.
(f) "Pharmacy provider" means an area, premises or other site where drugs are offered for sale, where there are pharmacists, as defined in K.S.A. 65-1626, and amendments thereto, and where prescriptions, as defined in K.S.A. 65-1626, and amendments thereto, are compounded and dispensed.
(g) "Assessment revenues" means the revenues generated directly by the assessments imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208 and 65-6213, and amendments thereto, any penalty assessments and all interest credited to the fund under this act, and any federal matching funds obtained through the use of such assessments, penalties and interest amounts.
History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 1; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 272; July 1.