Florida Statutes 641.43 – Provider contracts
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 641.43
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Prepaid health clinic: means any organization authorized under this part which provides, either directly or through arrangements with other persons, basic services to persons enrolled with such organization, on a prepaid per capita or prepaid aggregate fixed-sum basis, including those basic services which subscribers might reasonably require to maintain good health. See Florida Statutes 641.402
- Provider: means any physician or person other than a hospital that furnishes health care services and is licensed or authorized to practice in this state. See Florida Statutes 641.402
- Subscriber: means an individual who has contracted, or on whose behalf a contract has been entered into, with a prepaid health clinic for health care services. See Florida Statutes 641.402
Whenever a prepaid health clinic provides services to subscribers through an arrangement with a provider, there shall be a written contract with the provider. The contract shall include a provision that, if the prepaid health clinic fails to meet its obligation to pay fees for services already rendered by the provider to a subscriber, the prepaid health clinic and not the subscriber is liable for the payment of such fees.