Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 29.5 - Tribal-State Compact With the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians

• active duty: means full-time service in the:

  Indiana Code 25-1-12-2

• advertisement: means any printed, electronic, or oral statement:

  Indiana Code 25-1-10.3-2

• affiliated: refers to a provider that is a member of the same provider group as another provider. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-2
• agency: refers to the Indiana professional licensing agency established by IC 25-1-5-3. See Indiana Code 25-1-13-2
• agency: refers to the Indiana professional licensing agency. See Indiana Code 25-1-16-1
• Agency: refers to the Indiana professional licensing agency under IC 25-1-5. See Indiana Code 25-10-1-1
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• anesthesiologist assistant: means an individual who:

  Indiana Code 25-3.7-1-1

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• approved organization: refers to the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-4-0.2

• armed forces of the United States: means the active or reserve components of:

  Indiana Code 25-1-12-3

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Auction: means a sale transaction conducted by means of oral or written exchanges between an auctioneer and the members of the auctioneer's audience, which exchanges consist of a series of invitations for offers for the purchase of goods or real estate made by the auctioneer and offers to purchase made by members of the audience and culminate in the acceptance by the auctioneer of the highest or most favorable offer made by a member of the participating audience. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• Auction company: means any person or persons who, as a part of its business, arranges, manages, sponsors, advertises, or carries out auctions. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• Auctioneer: means an individual who is engaged in, or who by advertising or otherwise holds the individual out as being available to engage in, the calling for, the recognition of, and the acceptance of offers for the purchase of goods or real estate at an auction. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• board: means any of the entities described in Indiana Code 25-1-11-1
• board: means an entity that regulates a specific regulated occupation. See Indiana Code 25-1-16-2
• board: has the meaning set forth in IC 25-1-8-1. See Indiana Code 25-1-17-1
• board: means any of the entities described in Indiana Code 25-1-21-2
• board: shall be construed to mean the board of registration for architects and landscape architects. See Indiana Code 25-4-1-22
• board: means the board of registration for architects and landscape architects as established under IC 25-4-1-2. See Indiana Code 25-4-2-1
• board: refers to the medical licensing board of Indiana. See Indiana Code 25-3.7-1-2
• Board: means the board of chiropractic examiners under section 1. See Indiana Code 25-10-1-1
• board: means any of the entities described in Indiana Code 25-1-4-0.3
• board: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 25-1-5.7-1
• board: means any of the entities described in Indiana Code 25-1-8-1
• board: means any of the entities described in Indiana Code 25-1-9-1
• board: refers to the Indiana board of pharmacy established by IC 25-26-13-3. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.3-2
• branch office: means a fixed physical location:

  Indiana Code 25-11-1-1

• Chiropractic: means the examination, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of human ailments and conditions of any interference with normal nerve transmission and expression, the procedure preparatory to and complementary to the correction thereof by an adjustment or manipulation of the articulations of the vertebral column, its immediate articulation, including other incidental means of adjustments of the spinal column, extremities, and musculoskeletal soft tissues of the body without the use of prescription drugs or surgery. See Indiana Code 25-10-1-1
• chiropractic management consultant: means any person doing business in Indiana for the purpose of offering consulting services to chiropractors regarding the administration and operation of their practice. See Indiana Code 25-10-2-1
• Chiropractor: means any person who is qualified under this chapter to practice the science of chiropractic. See Indiana Code 25-10-1-1
• claim: means any obligation for the payment of money or its equivalent and any sum or sums owed or due or asserted to be owed or due to another, for which any person may be employed to demand payment and to collect or enforce payment thereof. See Indiana Code 25-11-1-1
• collection agency: means and includes all persons engaging directly or indirectly and as a primary or secondary object, business, or pursuit, in soliciting claims for collection, or in the collection of claims owed or due or asserted to be owed or due to another, including child support arrearages under IC 31-25-4. See Indiana Code 25-11-1-1
• Commission: means the Indiana auctioneer commission. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• continuing education: means an orderly process of instruction:

  Indiana Code 25-1-4-0.5

• controlled substance: has the meaning set forth in IC 35-48-1-9. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.3-3
• covered individual: means an individual who is entitled to be provided health care services according to a health carrier's network plan. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-1
• covered individual: means an individual who is entitled to coverage under a health plan. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-3
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• deceptive or misleading information: means any information that misrepresents or falsely describes a practitioner's:

  Indiana Code 25-1-10.3-3

• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• dependent: means a natural child, stepchild, or adopted child of a parent who is a member of the armed forces of the United States and who is less than twenty-six (26) years of age and at the time of application under this chapter:

  Indiana Code 25-1-17-1.5

• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• direct primary care agreement: means a contract entered into between a primary care provider or an employer of a primary care provider and an individual patient or the patient's legal representative in which the primary care provider or the employer of the primary care provider:

  Indiana Code 25-1-10-1

• distant site: means a site at which a practitioner is located while providing health care services through telehealth. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-2
• division: refers to the division of mental health and addiction. See Indiana Code 4-35-8.8-1
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• educational degree: means the degree awarded to the practitioner by a college or university in the practitioner's profession, which may be used under the scope of the practitioner's license, including use of its acronym. See Indiana Code 25-1-10.3-3.5
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• electronic transmission: has the meaning set forth in IC 25-26-13-2. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.3-4
• emergency medical condition: means a medical condition that arises suddenly and unexpectedly and manifests itself by acute symptoms of such severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected by a prudent lay person who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine to:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-4

• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• episode of care: means the medical care ordered to be provided for a specific medical procedure, condition, or illness. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-1.5
• 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}
• examination: includes the repetition of an examination by a person who did not receive a satisfactory grade (as defined by IC 25-8-4-9) on a prior examination. See Indiana Code 25-8-13-1
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• eye care professional: means either of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-2.2

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• fund: means the gaming integrity fund established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-35-8.7-1
• gender: means the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of being male or female. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-1
• gender reassignment surgery: means any medical or surgical service that seeks to surgically alter or remove healthy physical or anatomical characteristics or features that are typical for the individual's sex, in order to instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a sex different from the individual's sex, including genital gender reassignment surgery or nongenital gender reassignment surgery knowingly performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-2
• gender transition: means the process in which an individual shifts from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to his or her sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from his or her sex, and may involve social, legal, or physical changes. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-3
• gender transition hormone therapy: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-22-4

• gender transition procedures: means any medical or surgical service, including physician's services, practitioner's services, inpatient and outpatient hospital services, or prescribed drugs related to gender transition, that seeks to:

  Indiana Code 25-1-22-5

• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• good faith estimate: means a reasonable estimate of the price each provider anticipates charging for an episode of care for nonemergency health care services that:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-2

• Goods: means any goods, wares, chattels, merchandise, or other personal property, including domestic animals and farm products. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• health care services: includes the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-2.5

• health carrier: means an entity:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-3

• health plan: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-5

• in network: when used in reference to a practitioner, means that the health care services provided by the practitioner are subject to a health carrier's network plan. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-4
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• INSPECT: refers to the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking program established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 25-1-13-3
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• jurisdiction: means the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Indiana Code 25-1-21-3
• landscape architecture: means the practice of professional services such as consultation, investigation, reconnaissance, research, planning, design, or responsible supervision to develop land areas for the dominant purpose of preserving, enhancing, or determining:

  Indiana Code 25-4-2-1

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• license: has the meaning set forth in IC 25-1-2-6. See Indiana Code 25-1-10.3-4
• license: includes a license, certificate, registration, or permit. See Indiana Code 25-1-11-3
• license: includes a license, certificate, or registration. See Indiana Code 25-1-15-1
• license: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-16-4

• license: means an unlimited license regulating the occupation in question. See Indiana Code 25-1-21-4
• license: includes a license, certificate, registration, or permit. See Indiana Code 25-1-5.7-2
• license: includes a license, certificate, registration, or permit. See Indiana Code 25-1-9-3
• Licensee: means any person licensed under this article and, in the case of an auction company, includes the person required to obtain a license for such auction company. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• Licensing agency: means the Indiana professional licensing agency established by IC 25-1-5-3. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• licensing agency: means the Indiana professional licensing agency created by IC 25-1-5-3. See Indiana Code 25-1-5.7-3
• medical record: means written or printed information possessed by a provider (as defined in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• military service: means service performed while an active member of any of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-17-2

• military spouse: means the husband or wife of an individual who is a member of the armed forces of the United States. See Indiana Code 25-1-17-3
• minor: means an individual who is less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-7
• minority: means a member of a minority group (as defined in Indiana Code 4-35-11-3
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• national guard: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-12-4

• network: means a group of provider facilities and practitioners that:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-5

• network: means a group of two (2) or more providers that have entered into:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-6

• network plan: means a plan of a health carrier that:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-6

• network provider: means a provider described in section 6 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-7
• nonemergency health care service: means a discrete service or series of services ordered by a practitioner for an episode of care for the:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-7

• nongenital gender reassignment surgery: means medical procedures knowingly performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition, including the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-22-8

• 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.
• occupational license: means a nontransferable and exclusive authorization in law in which the general assembly establishes the personal qualifications necessary to engage in an occupation or profession. See Indiana Code 25-1-16.5-1
• occupational regulation: means a regulation, rule, policy, fee, condition, test, permit, administrative practice, or other provision in which a public agency establishes the personal qualifications necessary to engage in an occupation or profession. See Indiana Code 25-1-16.5-2
• office: refers to the office of management and budget. See Indiana Code 25-1-16-4.5
• ophthalmic device: means either of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-2.8

• Organization: means a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, a trust (specifically including a business trust), a firm, an association, or any other form of business enterprise which is owned by two (2) or more individuals. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• originating site: means any site at which a patient is located at the time health care services through telehealth are provided to the individual. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-3
• out of network provider: means a provider that is not described in section 6 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-8
• person: means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or a limited liability company. See Indiana Code 25-1-11-4
• person: means any individual, firm, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation. See Indiana Code 25-11-1-1
• Person: means an organization or an individual. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• personal qualifications: means criteria related to an individual's personal background and characteristics, including the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-16.5-3

• physician: means an individual who is licensed under Indiana Code 25-1-22-9
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• practitioner: means the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-8

• practitioner: means an individual who holds a license issued by a board described in Indiana Code 25-1-10.3-5
• practitioner: means a person that holds:

  Indiana Code 25-1-11-2

• practitioner: means an individual who holds:

  Indiana Code 25-1-12-5

• practitioner: refers to any of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-15-2

• practitioner: means an individual who provides health services and holds:

  Indiana Code 25-1-22-10

• practitioner: means an individual registered as a landscape architect under this chapter. See Indiana Code 25-4-2-1
• practitioner: means an individual who holds:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9-2

• practitioner: means an individual who holds an unlimited license to practice as any of the following in Indiana:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-3.5

• prescriber: refers to a practitioner who maintains an Indiana controlled substance registration and a federal Drug Enforcement Administration registration. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.7-1
• prescriber: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.3-5

• prescriber: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-4

• prescription: has the meaning set forth in IC 25-26-13-2. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.3-6
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• price: means the negotiated rate between the:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-8.5

• primary care health services: includes any of the following services that are provided within the primary care provider's scope of practice and for the purpose of promotion of health or the detection and management of disease or injury:

  Indiana Code 25-1-10-3

• primary care provider: means a person that is licensed, certified, or registered under IC 12, IC 16, or this title to provide primary care health services in Indiana. See Indiana Code 25-1-10-2
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• profession: means the name or title of the profession of which a practitioner is a member, as specifically allowed for use by individuals who hold a license, license by endorsement, certificate, or registration from a board described in Indiana Code 25-1-10.3-6
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• provider: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-9

• provider: means a practitioner described in IC 25-1-9-2(a)(1). See Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-9
• provider facility: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.8-10

• provider group: means a legal entity:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-10

• puberty blocking drugs: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-22-11

• public agency: includes the following:

  Indiana Code 25-1-16.5-4

• Real estate: means any right, title, or interest in real property, including fixtures. See Indiana Code 25-6.1-1-3
• referral: means a recommendation or direction made by a provider to a covered individual that the covered individual receive a health care item or service rendered by another provider that is not affiliated with the first provider. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.1-11
• refraction: means a test that is performed to measure an individual's prescription for eye glasses or contact lenses. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-4.5
• regulated occupation: has the meaning set forth in IC 25-1-7-1. See Indiana Code 25-1-16-5
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• scleral tattooing: means the practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human eye by scarring or inserting a pigment on, in, or under:

  Indiana Code 25-1-19-1

• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-12
• sexual contact: means :

  Indiana Code 25-1-9-3.5

• store and forward: means the transmission of a patient's medical information from an originating site to the practitioner at a distant site without the patient being present. See Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-5
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• tanning device: means equipment that meets the following conditions:

  Indiana Code 25-8-15.4-3

• tanning facility: means a facility that provides persons with access to a tanning device. See Indiana Code 25-8-15.4-4
• telehealth: means the delivery of health care services using interactive electronic communications and information technology, in compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including:

  Indiana Code 25-1-9.5-6

• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.