Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 19 > Subchapter 2 - Health Care Improvement Program

• Ambulance agency: means an ambulance agency licensed pursuant to 18 Vt. See
• 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.
• Assessment: means a tax levied on a health care provider pursuant to this chapter. See
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Vermont Health Access. See
• Department: means the Department of Vermont Health Access. See
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Health care provider: means any hospital, nursing home, intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities, home health agency, or retail pharmacy. See
• Home health agency: means an entity that has received a certificate of need from the State to provide home health services or is certified to provide services pursuant to 42 U. See
• Home health services: means any of the following:

• Hospital: means a hospital licensed under 18 Vt. See
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See
• Net patient revenues: means a provider's gross charges related to patient care services less any deductions for bad debts, charity care, contractual allowances, and other payer discounts. See
• Nursing home: means a health care facility licensed under chapter 71 of this title. See
• 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: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Pharmacy: means a Vermont drug outlet licensed by the Vermont State Board of Pharmacy pursuant to 26 Vt. See
• psychiatric facility: means a hospital as defined in 18 V. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Human Services. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See