Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 31A > Chapter 23b > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Accident and health insurance: means insurance to provide protection against economic losses resulting from:

  (i)	a medical condition including: (A)  a medical care expense; or (B)  the risk of disability;

  (ii)	accident; or

  (iii)

  sickness. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Agency head: means a cabinet officer, an elected official, an executive director, or a board or commission vested with responsibility to administer or make policy for a state agency. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 Application: means a document: (a)  (i)  completed by an applicant to provide information about the risk to be insured; and (ii)  that contains information that is used by the insurer to evaluate risk and decide whether to: (A)  insure the risk under: (I)  the coverage as originally offered; or (II)  a modification of the coverage as originally offered; or (B)  decline to insure the risk; or (b)  used by the insurer to gather information from the applicant before issuance of an annuity contract. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Appointing authority: means : (a)  the governor, for state agencies other than the State Tax Commission; (b)  the Judicial Council, for judicial branch agencies; (c)  the Utah Board of Higher Education, for higher education entities; (d)  the State Board of Education, for entities administered by the State Board of Education; or (e)  the four tax commissioners, for the State Tax Commission. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 Audit committee: means a standing committee composed of members who: (a)  are appointed by an appointing authority; (b)  (i)  do not have administrative responsibilities within the agency; and (ii)  are not an agency contractor or other service provider; and (c)  have the expertise to provide effective oversight of and advice about internal audit activities and services. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 audit director: means the person who: (a)  directs the internal audit program for the state agency; and (b)  is appointed by the audit committee or, if no audit committee has been established, by the agency head. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 Audit plan: means a prioritized list of audits to be performed by an internal audit program within a specified period of time. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 Health care: means any of the following intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention of a human ailment or impairment: (a)  a professional service; (b)  a personal service; (c)  a facility; (d)  equipment; (e)  a device; (f)  supplies; or (g)  medicine. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Insurance: includes : (i)  a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind; (ii)  a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and (iii)  a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Internal audit: means an independent appraisal activity established within a state agency as a control system to examine and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of other internal control systems within the agency. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 Internal audit program: means an audit function that: (a)  is conducted by an agency, division, bureau, or office, independent of the agency, division, bureau, or office operations; (b)  objectively evaluates the effectiveness of agency, division, bureau, or office governance, risk management, internal controls, and the efficiency of operations; and (c)  is conducted in accordance with the current: (i)  International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing; or (ii)  The Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 License: includes a certificate of authority issued to an insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Person: includes : (a)  an individual; (b)  a partnership; (c)  a corporation; (d)  an incorporated or unincorporated association; (e)  a joint stock company; (f)  a trust; (g)  a limited liability company; (h)  a reciprocal; (i)  a syndicate; or (j)  another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Personally identifiable information: is a s defined in 45 C. See Utah Code 31A-23b-102 PPACA: means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Premium: includes , however designated: (i)  an assessment; (ii)  a membership fee; (iii)  a required contribution; or (iv)  monetary consideration. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Public programs: means the state Medicaid program in Title 26B, Chapter 3, Health Care - Administration and Assistance, and 9. See Utah Code 31A-23b-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State agency: means : (i)  each department, commission, board, council, agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state; or (ii)  each state public education entity. See Utah Code 63I-5-102 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5