Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 27 > Article 1 > Chapter 44.5 - All Payer Claims Data Base

• administrator: means the entity that contracts with the department to create, operate, and maintain the data base. See Indiana Code 27-1-44.5-0.2
• advisory board: means the all payer claims data base advisory board established under Indiana Code 27-1-44.5-0.4
• Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• data base: refers to the all payer claims data base created under this chapter. See Indiana Code 27-1-44.5-1
• Department: means "the department of insurance" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• executive director: means the individual who is responsible for overseeing the operations of the data base as an employee of the department. See Indiana Code 27-1-44.5-1.2
• health payer: includes the following:

  Indiana Code 27-1-44.5-2

• Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, and partnerships; personal pronoun includes all genders; the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5