Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 346G - Hospital Sustainability Program

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Approved continuing education course: means a course approved by the commissioner following receipt of recommendations from insurance professionals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Board: means the board of directors of the development corporation established in section 206M-2, and any successor thereto. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Class: means the general categories of insurance, as set forth in §§ 431:1-204 to 431:1-210, in which insurers may be authorized to transact the business of insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Commissioner: means the insurance commissioner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Cost: means the total cost in carrying out all undertakings that the development corporation deems reasonable and necessary for the development of a project or econimic zone, including but not limited to the cost of studies, surveys, plans, and specifications, architectural, design, engineering, or any other special related services; the cost of site preparation and development, demolition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and improvement; the cost of financing such project or econimic zone, including interest on bonds issued to finance such project or econimic zone from the date thereof to the estimated date of completion of such project or econimic zone as determined by the board; the cost of an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the development corporation related to the development of such project or econimic zone; and the cost of indemnity and surety bonds, premiums on policies of insurance, legal fees, and fees and expenses of trustees, depositories, and paying agents for the bonds, and for the issuance of letters of credit or other banking arrangements whether for the development corporation or a qualified person; all as the development corporation shall deem necessary. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Credit hour: means the value assigned to an approved continuing education course that is equivalent to at least fifty minutes of classroom instruction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Development corporation: means the Hawaii technology development corporation established by section 206M-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Enterprise: means a person with a place of business in Hawaii which is, or proposes to be, engaged in business in Hawaii; provided that the endeavor shall not be devoted to the sale of goods at retail, construction of housing, or tourism- related services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fiscal year: means a twelve-month period from July 1 of a particular calendar year to June 30 of the following calendar year, inclusive. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Hospital: means any facility licensed pursuant to chapter 11-93, Hawaii Administrative Rules. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Individual: means a natural person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Inpatient care: means the care of patients whose conditions require admission to a hospital. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Licensee: means any type of insurance producer or producer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Medicaid cost report: means the annual cost report that a hospital submits to the State's medicaid agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Net patient service revenue: means gross revenue from inpatient and outpatient care provided to hospital patients converted to net patient service revenue utilizing data from Worksheets G-2 and G-3 of each hospital's medicare cost report for the fiscal year ending three years prior to the state fiscal year for which net patient service revenue is being calculated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Outpatient care: means all services furnished by hospitals to patients who are registered as hospital outpatients. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Person: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other association of persons organized for commercial or industrial purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Private hospital: means all currently operating hospitals, except for hospitals that are:
  (1) Operated by or affiliated with the Hawaii health systems corporation; or
  (2) Charitable hospitals funded primarily through donations or other non-insurance sources of funding, and whose net patient revenue is less than fifty per cent of operating expenses, per the medicaid cost report. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346G-3
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this State to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Project: means the acquisition, construction, improvement, installation, equipping, and development of any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including, without limitation, parking facilities for use of, or to assist a technology industrial, manufacturing, or processing enterprise located within or without an econimic zone, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus that shall be deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to the enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this chapter by the development corporation with a qualified person to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project or an econimic zone from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist a technology industrial, manufacturing, or processing enterprise, including, without limitation, any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Qualified person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal entity, governmental body or public agency, or any combination of the foregoing, possessing the competence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial, personnel, and tangible resources, required for the purposes of a project and other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the development corporation in administering this chapter and which enters into a project agreement with the development corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• rental company producer: means a motor vehicle rental company that is licensed by the commissioner to solicit and sell insurance coverages only in connection with and which are incidental to the rental company's business of renting motor vehicles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-141
• Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurance company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Solicit: means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-102
• Technology: means industries that are technology-intensive, including but not limited to electronics, biotechnology, software, computers, telecommunications, and other computer-related technologies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206M-1
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• vehicle: means a motor vehicle:

  (1) Of the private passenger type including passenger vans, minivans, and sport utility vehicles; or

  (2) Of the cargo type, including cargo vans or pickup trucks with a gross vehicle weight of less than twenty-six thousand pounds,

  that do not require a commercial driver's license for the operation of the vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:9A-141