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- Acute condition: means that the individual is medically unstable, requiring frequent monitoring by medical professionals in order to maintain his or her health status. See Michigan Laws 500.3901
- Agent: means an individual who meets 1 or more of the following requirements:
(i) Is authorized to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care. See Michigan Laws 333.10102Allied health degree: means an earned baccalaureate or master degree in nursing, medical technology, medical records administration, dietetics, physician's assistant, emergency medical technology, respiratory therapy, anesthesia, nuclear medicine technology, and other allied health programs which are determined by the state board of education to qualify for reimbursement. See Michigan Laws 390.1021 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. Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Applicant: means :
(i) For an individual long-term care insurance policy, the person who seeks to contract for long-term care benefits. See Michigan Laws 500.3901Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC Body part: means an organ, eye, or tissue of a human being. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Certificate: means any certificate delivered or issued for delivery in this state under a group Medicare supplement policy. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102 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. 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. Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102 Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Donor: means an individual whose body or body part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Donor: The person who makes a gift. Donor registry: means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts as provided for in section 10120. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 economic development fund: means that fund to which the fund succeeded in ownership pursuant to section 22. See Michigan Laws 125.2081 Enrollee: means an individual who is entitled to receive health services under a health insurance contract, unless the context requires otherwise. See Michigan Laws 500.116 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. Eye: means a human eye or any portion of a human eye. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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. Fund: means the Michigan strategic fund created under section 5, except where the context clearly requires a different definition. See Michigan Laws 125.2004 Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve Group long-term care insurance: means a long-term care insurance certificate that is delivered or issued for delivery in this state and issued to any of the following:
(i) One or more employers or labor organizations, or to a trust or the trustees of a fund established by 1 or more employers or labor organizations for employees or former employees or members or former members of the labor organization. See Michigan Laws 500.3901Guaranteed renewable: means the insured has the right to continue the long-term care insurance in force by the timely payment of premiums and the insurer does not have a unilateral right to make any change in any provision of the policy or rider while the insurance is in force and cannot decline to renew, except that rates may be revised by the insurer on a class basis. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Health insurance policy: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy, certificate, or contract. See Michigan Laws 500.608 Home care services: means 1 or more of the following prescribed services or assessment team recommended services for the long-term care and treatment of an insured that are to be provided in a noninstitutional setting according to a written diagnosis and plan of care or individual assessment and plan of care:
(i) Nursing services under the direction of a registered nurse, including the service of a home health aide. See Michigan Laws 500.3901Identification card: means an official state personal identification card issued by the secretary of state under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC Insurer: includes any person that delivers or issues for delivery in this state Medicare supplement policies. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106 Intermediate care facility: means a facility, or distinct part of a facility, certified by the department of community health to provide intermediate care, custodial care, or basic care that is less than skilled nursing care but more than room and board. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Judge: means a judge of the district court, the circuit court, or the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, who has converted a portion of his or her state salary standardization payment as an addition to his or her state base salary under section 14a or 14c of Act No. See Michigan Laws 38.841 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Local unit of government: means a county, city, township, or other political subdivision of this state which offers its employees a retirement plan in which a judge may be a member. See Michigan Laws 38.841 Long-term care insurance: means an individual or group insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for at least 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense-incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis for 1 or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, personal, or custodial care services provided in a setting, including an assisted living facility operating legally in this state, but not including an acute care unit of a hospital. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Medicare: means subchapter XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395lll. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Medicare: means title XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395ggg. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Medicare supplement policy: means an individual or group policy or certificate that is advertised, marketed, or designed primarily as a supplement to reimbursements under Medicare for the hospital, medical, or surgical expenses of persons eligible for Medicare and Medicare select policies and certificates under section 3817. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Nonprofit health care corporation: means a nonprofit health care corporation operating pursuant to the nonprofit health care corporation reform act, 1980 PA 350, MCL 550. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 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. Organ: means a human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, or intestine or multivisceral organs when transplanted at the same time as an intestine. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Organ procurement organization: means a person certified or recertified by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as a qualified organ procurement organization under 42 USC 273(b). See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the law of any state. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Policy: means an insurance policy or certificate, rider, or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this state by an insurer or subsidiary of a nonprofit health care corporation. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Policy form: means the form on which the policy or certificate is delivered or issued for delivery by the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC Preexisting condition: means a condition for which medical advice or treatment was recommended by, or received from, a provider of health care services within the 6 months immediately before the effective date of coverage of an insured person. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probate: Proving a will Procurement organization: means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Prospective donor: means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a body part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Rate: means the cost of insurance per payroll before adjustment for an individual insured's size, exposure, or loss experience. See Michigan Laws 500.2402 Reasonably available: means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Refusal: means a record created under section 10107 that expressly refuses to make an anatomical gift of an individual's body or body part. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Secretary: means the secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. See Michigan Laws 500.3801 Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims. Skilled nursing facility: means a facility, or a distinct part of a facility, certified by the department of community health to provide skilled nursing care. See Michigan Laws 500.3901 State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Tissue: means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an eye. See Michigan Laws 333.10102 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: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.