Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-116l

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Department: means the department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,175
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or other association of persons. See Kansas Statutes 65-171j
  • Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-1,114

No funds appropriated to the department of health and environment for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-116i, and amendments thereto, shall be used for meeting the cost of the care, maintenance or treatment of any person who has communicable or infectious tuberculosis by a medical care facility on an inpatient basis to the extent that such cost is covered by insurance or other third party payments, or to the extent that such person or a person who is legally responsible for the support of such person is able to assume the cost of such care, maintenance, treatment or transportation. The secretary of health and environment in determining the ability of a person to assume such costs shall consider the following factors: (a) The age of such person; (b) the number of such person’s dependents and their ages and physical condition; (c) the person’s length of care, maintenance or treatment, if such person is the person receiving the care, maintenance or treatment; (d) such person’s liabilities; (e) such person’s assets; and (f) such other factors as the secretary deems important. The secretary of health and environment may adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.