Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 51 > Chapter 61 - Digitized Identification Card Acceptance

• Claim: means any request or demand, whether under a contract or otherwise, for money or property, whether or not the state or department has title to the money or property, that is drawn in whole or in part on medical assistance programs funds that are either of the following:

              (a) Presented to an officer, employee, or agent of the state or department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3

• commerce: means the advertising, offering for sale, sale, or distribution of any services, including educational services, and any property, corporeal or incorporeal, immovable or movable, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value wherever situated, and includes any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Consumer: means any individual who uses, purchases, or leases goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• current status: includes valid, expired, cancelled, suspended, disqualified, active, inactive, member, nonmember, eligible, or ineligible. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Digitized identification card: means a data file available on any mobile device which has connectivity to the internet through a state-approved application that allows the mobile device to download the data file from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections or an authorized representative of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections that contains all of the data elements visible on the face and back of a license or identification card and displays the current status of the license or identification card. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• False or fraudulent claim: means a claim which the health care provider or his billing agent submits knowing the claim to be false, fictitious, untrue, or misleading in regard to any material information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• knowingly: means that the person has actual knowledge of the information or acts in deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Material: means having a natural tendency to influence, or be capable of influencing, the payment or receipt of money or property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Obligation: means an established duty, whether or not fixed, arising from an express or implied contractual, grantor, grantee, or licensor-licensee relationship, from a free-based or similar relationship, from statute or regulation, or from the retention of any overpayment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Payment: means the payment to a health care provider from medical assistance programs funds pursuant to a claim, or the attempt to seek payment for a claim. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, union, public or private education institution, or other organization, including but not limited to a bar or restaurant that is engaged in trade or commerce within the geographic boundaries of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Recipient: means an individual who is eligible to receive health care through the medical assistance programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Rule: means any rule or regulation promulgated by the department in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act and any federal rule or regulation promulgated by the federal government in accordance with federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Secretary or attorney general: means that either party is authorized to institute a proceeding or take other authorized action as provided in this Part pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the two so as to notify the public as to whether the secretary or the attorney general is the deciding or controlling party in the proceeding or other authorized matter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3