Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 68 > Health > Chapter 59 - Tennessee Trauma Center Funding Law of 2007

• Advisory council: means the Tennessee trauma care advisory council, formerly known as the trauma task force. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Appropriation: 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
• commission: means the health facilities commission created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Coordinator: means the person designated by the commissioner pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Executive director: means the executive director of the health facilities commission. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Trauma center: means any Level I, Level II, Level III or Level IV institution licensed by the commission pursuant to chapter 11, part 2 of this title. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Trauma patient: means a patient who is on the state trauma registry or the National Trauma Registry of the American College of Surgeons. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Trauma service codes: means a subset of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, or the most relevant versions of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) required by the centers for medicare and medicaid services, for coding hospital discharges designated as trauma service codes by the American College of Surgeons committee on trauma. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Trauma system: means :
  (A) All designated Level I, II, III, IV trauma centers. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102
• Uncompensated care: means either:
  (A) Care provided by a facility defined as part of the trauma system to a trauma patient who:

  (i) Has no medical insurance, including Medicare Part B coverage. See Tennessee Code 68-59-102