Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 14 > Part 3 > Chapter 307 - Conduct of Trial

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Average wholesale price: means the average wholesale price of a prescription drug as identified by a national drug pricing source selected by a health insurer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Compensation: means any direct or indirect financial benefit, including, but not limited to, rebates, discounts, credits, fees, grants, charge?backs or other payments or benefits of any kind. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Covered person: includes the authorized representative of a covered person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
• Dispensing fee: means the professional fee incurred at the point of sale or service that pays for pharmacy costs, in excess of ingredient cost, associated with ensuring that possession of the appropriate prescription drug is transferred to a covered person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• 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.
• 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.
• Formulary: means a list of prescription drugs covered by a health plan and any tier levels applicable to a prescription drug. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• General assistance program: means a service administered by a municipality for the immediate aid of persons who are unable to provide the basic necessities essential to maintain themselves or their families. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4301
• Generic drug: includes a biosimilar product. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Ingredient cost: means the actual amount paid to a pharmacy provider by a carrier or the carrier's pharmacy benefits manager for a prescription drug, not including the dispensing fee or cost?sharing amount. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Mail order pharmacy: means a pharmacy whose primary business is to receive prescriptions by mail, by fax or through electronic submissions and to dispense medication to covered persons through the use of the United States mail or other common or contract carrier services and that provides any consultation with patients electronically rather than face to face. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Maximum allowable cost: means the maximum amount a health insurer will pay for a generic drug or brand?name drug that has at least one generic alternative available. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Municipality of responsibility: means the municipality which is liable for the support of any eligible person at the time of application. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4301
• Need: means the condition whereby a person's income, money, property, credit, assets or other resources available to provide basic necessities for the individual and the individual's family are less than the maximum levels of assistance established by the municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4301
• Network pharmacy: means a licensed retail pharmacy or other pharmacy provider that contracts with a pharmacy benefits manager. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Overseer: means an official designated by a municipality to administer a general assistance program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4301
• Pharmacy: means an established location, either physical or electronic, that is licensed by the State and that has entered into a network pharmacy contract with a pharmacy benefits manager or carrier. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Pharmacy and therapeutics committee: means a committee, board or equivalent body established by a carrier to develop and maintain formularies. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Pharmacy benefits manager: means a person, business or other entity that, pursuant to a contract or under an employment relationship with a carrier, a self?insurance plan or other 3rd?party payer, either directly or through an intermediary, manages the prescription drug coverage provided by the carrier, self?insurance plan or other 3rd?party payer, including, but not limited to, processing and paying claims for prescription drugs, performing drug utilization review, processing drug prior authorization requests, adjudicating appeals or grievances related to prescription drug coverage, contracting with network pharmacies and controlling the cost of covered prescription drugs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Pharmacy provider: means a retail pharmacy, mail order pharmacy or licensed pharmacist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Retail pharmacy: means a chain pharmacy, a supermarket pharmacy, a mass merchandiser pharmacy, an independent pharmacy or a network of independent pharmacies that is licensed as a pharmacy by this State and that dispenses medications to the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4347
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72