Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 29 > Article 3 - Qualified Medicare Beneficiary

• Administration: means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: means a person or entity that has a prepaid capitated contract with the administration pursuant to section 36-2904 to provide health care to members under this article either directly or through subcontracts with providers. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Director: means the director of the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Federal poverty guidelines: means the poverty guidelines as updated annually in the federal register by the United States department of health and human services. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Member: means an eligible person who enrolls in the system and who is defined as a qualified medicare beneficiary pursuant to section 1905(p) of title XIX of the social security act and whose income does not exceed one hundred per cent of the federal poverty guidelines. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Primary care physician: means a physician who is a family practitioner, general practitioner, pediatrician, general internist, or obstetrician or gynecologist. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Primary care practitioner: means a nurse practitioner certified pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 15 or a physician assistant certified pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 25. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Program contractor: means the department or any other entity that contracts with the administration pursuant to section 36-2940 or 36-2944. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• Qualified medicare beneficiary only: means an eligible person who is determined eligible pursuant to this article and who is not enrolled as a member under either article 1 or 2 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• System: means the Arizona health care cost containment system established by article 1 of this chapter and the Arizona long-term care system established by article 2 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-2971
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215