Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 44 > Chapter 11 > Article 25 - Direct Primary Care Agreements

• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Direct primary care agreement: means a contract between a primary care provider and an individual patient or the patient's legal representative in which the primary care provider agrees to provide primary care services to the individual patient for an agreed periodic fee and period of time. See Arizona Laws 44-1799.91
• Direct primary care patient: means a patient who enters into a direct primary care agreement with a primary care provider. See Arizona Laws 44-1799.91
• Direct primary care provider: means a primary care provider who enters into a direct primary care agreement with a patient or the patient's legal representative. See Arizona Laws 44-1799.91
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Primary care services: means routine, periodic health care procedures that are ordered and supervised by a primary care provider, including medical visits, laboratory testing, imaging, pathology testing, prescribing and administering medication, diagnosing, treating and managing acute and chronic conditions and other health care procedures provided to patients on a routine, periodic basis that may be performed or supervised by a primary care provider with training and experience in that procedure, or dental services that may be performed or supervised by a dentist who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 11. See Arizona Laws 44-1799.91
• subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215