Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 25 > Chapter 18 - Ansel M. Stroud, Jr. Military History and Weapons Museum

• Burden: means that the government, directly or indirectly, does any of the following:

  (a)  Constrains or inhibits conduct or expression mandated by a person's sincerely held religious tenet or belief. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234

• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in a health maintenance organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Exercise of religion: means the practice or observance of religion under Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution of Louisiana and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and includes the ability to act or refuse to act in a manner substantially motivated by a sincerely-held religious belief, whether or not the exercise is compulsory or a central part or central requirement of the person's religious belief. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
• Health care services: means any services rendered by providers which include but are not limited to medical and surgical care; psychological, optometric, optic, chiropractic, podiatric, nursing, and pharmaceutical services; health education, rehabilitative, and home health services; physical therapy; inpatient and outpatient hospital services; dietary and nutritional services; laboratory and ambulance services; and any other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Health maintenance organization: means any corporation organized as either a business corporation or a nonprofit corporation and domiciled in this state which undertakes to provide or arrange for the provision of basic health care services to enrollees in return for a prepaid charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• person: includes an individual and also includes a church, association of churches or other religious order, body or institution which qualifies for exemption from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) or (d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public law 99-514, 26 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
• Provider: means any physician, hospital, or other person, organization, institution, or group of persons licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Subscriber: means the person who is responsible for payment to a health maintenance organization or whose employment or other status, except for family dependence, is the basis for eligibility for enrollment in the health maintenance organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242