Tennessee Code 56-60-107 – Requirements for granting a third party access to the contracting entity’s provider network – Refusal to accept contractual discount
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-60-107
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contracting entity: means any individual or entity that is engaged in the act of contracting with providers and that has entered into a provider network contract with a provider for the delivery of health care services. See Tennessee Code 56-60-102
- Entity: means a corporation, business trust, 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 Tennessee Code 56-60-102
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Physician: means any individual licensed as a chiropractic physician under title 63, chapter 4. See Tennessee Code 56-60-102
- Physician hospital organization: means an organization that includes, but is not limited to, hospitals and physicians and that contracts with and provides administrative services to hospitals and physicians that have entered into or intend to enter into managed care arrangements. See Tennessee Code 56-60-102
- Provider: means a physician, a physician organization or a physician hospital organization. See Tennessee Code 56-60-102
- Third party: means an organization that enters into a contract with a contracting entity or with another third party to gain access to a provider network contract. See Tennessee Code 56-60-102