(1) Attending clinician means the attending obstetrician, pediatrician, family practitioner, other physician or certified nurse midwife attending the mother or newly-born child.

(2) Inpatient means a patient who is confined to a health facility for medical care.

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CH. 92 MATERNITY STAY ACT

(3) Insurers means any individual or group contract (i.e. individual or group health insurer, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), nonprofit health plan (NHP)) that provides maternity benefits and which policy is delivered, issued, executed or renewed on Guam.

(4) Maternity benefits means coverage for prenatal, intrapartum, perinatal or postpartum care.
(5) Medically necessary means that the patient=s health, in the opinion of the attending physician, would be adversely affected by lack of appropriate treatment.