§ 3242.2. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and SafetyEffective: November 1, 2021
Effective: November 1, 2021
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 3242.2
§ 3242.2. Definitions
As used in the Ambulance Service Provider Access Payment Program Act:
6. “Emergency” or “emergent” means a serious situation or occurrence that happens unexpectedly and demands immediate action, such as a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity including severe pain such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected, by a reasonable and prudent layperson, to result in placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily function or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part;
9. “Net operating revenue” means the gross revenues earned for providing emergency and nonemergency transports in Oklahoma excluding revenues earned for providing air ambulance services and amounts refunded to or recouped, offset or otherwise deducted by a patient or payer for ground medical transportation;
11. “Upper payment limit” means the lesser of the customary charges of the ambulance service provider or the prevailing charges in the locality of the ambulance service provider for comparable services under comparable circumstances, calculated according to methodology in an approved state plan amendment for the state Medicaid program; and
12. “Upper payment limit gap” means the difference between the upper payment limit of the ambulance service provider and the Medicaid payments not financed using the ambulance service provider assessments made to all ambulance service providers, provided that the upper payment limit gap shall not include air ambulance services.
Credits
Laws 2021, c. 540, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 3242.2, OK ST T. 63 § 3242.2
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 277 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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