Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 27 > Article 1 > Chapter 37 - Health Provider Contracts

• affiliate: means any person who, directly or indirectly through one (1) or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the person to whom affiliation is attributed. See Indiana Code 27-1-37-0.2
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• corporation: means an insurance company and includes all persons, partnerships, corporations, associations, orders or societies engaged in or proposing to engage in making any kind of insurance authorized by the laws of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• emergency: means a medical condition that arises suddenly and unexpectedly and manifests itself by acute symptoms of such severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected by a prudent lay person who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine to:

  Indiana Code 27-1-37-1

• health carrier: means an entity:

  Indiana Code 27-1-37-1.5

• health maintenance organization: means a person that undertakes to provide or arrange for the delivery of health care services to individuals on a prepaid basis, except for the individual's responsibility for copayments or deductibles. See Indiana Code 27-1-37-2
• health provider contract: means an agreement with a provider or a health provider facility relating to terms and conditions of reimbursement for health care services provided to an individual under:

  Indiana Code 27-1-37-3

• health provider facility: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 27-1-37-3.2

• hospital system: means :

  Indiana Code 27-1-37-3.5

• Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: means an individual, an agency, a political subdivision, a partnership, a corporation, an association, or any other entity. See Indiana Code 27-1-37-4
• provider: means an individual or entity licensed or legally authorized to provide health care services. See Indiana Code 27-1-37-5