Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 107 > Part 2 > Chapter 2.6 > Article 5 - Alternative Payment Models

• Alternative payment model: means a state or nationally recognized payment approach that financially incentivizes high-quality and cost-efficient care. See California Health and Safety Code 127500.2
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Total health care expenditures: means all health care spending in the state by public and private sources, including all of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 127500.2