Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-3217

• Health maintenance organization: means an organization which:

  (1) Provides or otherwise makes available to enrollees health care services, including at a minimum those basic health care services which are determined by the commissioner to be generally available on an insured or prepaid basis in the geographic area served;

  (2) is compensated, except for reasonable copayments, for the provision of basic health care services to enrollees solely on a predetermined periodic rate basis;

  (3) provides physician services directly through physicians who are either employees or partners of such organization or under arrangements with a physician or any group of physicians or under arrangements as an independent contractor with a physician or any group of physicians;

  (4) is responsible for the availability, accessibility and quality of the health care services provided or made available. See Kansas Statutes 40-3202

• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201