Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 42-14.5 - The Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act of 2004 - Health Insurance Oversight

• Accountability standards: means measures including service processes, client and population outcomes, practice standard compliance and fiscal integrity of social and human service providers on the individual contractual level and service type for all state contacts of the state or any subdivision or agency to include, but not limited to, the department of children, youth and families (DCYF), the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals (BHDDH), the department of human services (DHS), the department of health (DOH), and Medicaid. See Rhode Island General Laws 42-14.5-2.1
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• 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.
• 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}
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Rate review: means the process of reviewing and reporting of specific trending factors that influence the cost of service that informs rate setting. See Rhode Island General Laws 42-14.5-2.1
• Rate setting: means the process of establishing rates for social and human service programs that are based on a thorough rate review process. See Rhode Island General Laws 42-14.5-2.1
• Social and human service program: means a social, mental health, developmental disability, child welfare, juvenile justice, prevention services, habilitative, rehabilitative, substance use disorder treatment, residential care, adult or adolescent day services, vocational, employment and training, or aging service program or accommodations purchased by the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 42-14.5-2.1
• Social and human service provider: means a provider of social and human service programs pursuant to a contract with the state or any subdivision or agency to include, but not be limited to, the department of children, youth and families (DCYF), the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals (BHDDH), the department of human services (DHS), the department of health (DOH), and Medicaid. See Rhode Island General Laws 42-14.5-2.1
• State government and the provider network: refers to the contractual relationship between a state agency or subdivision of a state agency and private companies the state contracts with to provide the network of mandated and discretionary social and human services. See Rhode Island General Laws 42-14.5-2.1