Terms Used In Florida Statutes > Chapter 313

• Accrediting organization: means an organization whose standards incorporate licensure regulations required by this state. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Agency: means the Agency for Health Care Administration. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Children and Families. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• General manager: means the individual who has the general administrative charge of the premises of a licensed home medical equipment provider. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Home medical equipment: includes any product as defined by the Food and Drug Administration's Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, any products reimbursed under the Medicare Part B Durable Medical Equipment benefits, or any products reimbursed under the Florida Medicaid durable medical equipment program. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Home medical equipment provider: means any person or entity that sells or rents or offers to sell or rent to or for a consumer:
  (a) Any home medical equipment and services; or
  (b) Home medical equipment that requires any home medical equipment services. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Home medical equipment provider personnel: means persons who are employed by or under contract with a home medical equipment provider. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Home medical equipment services: means equipment management and consumer instruction, including selection, delivery, setup, and maintenance of equipment, and other related services for the use of home medical equipment in the consumer's regular or temporary place of residence. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• 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.
• Life-supporting or life-sustaining equipment: means a device that is essential to, or that yields information that is essential to, the restoration or continuation of a bodily function important to the continuation of human life. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Misdemeanor: Usually a petty offense, a less serious crime than a felony, punishable by less than a year of confinement.
• patient: means any person who uses home medical equipment in his or her place of residence. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See Florida Statutes 88.6011
• Premises: means those buildings and equipment which are located at the address of the licensed home medical equipment provider for the provision of home medical equipment services, which are in such reasonable proximity as to appear to the public to be a single provider location, and which comply with zoning ordinances. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Residence: means the consumer's home or place of residence, which may include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, transitional living facilities, adult family-care homes, or other congregate residential facilities. See Florida Statutes 400.925