Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 27-81 - The Telemedicine Coverage Act

• Clinically appropriate: means care that is delivered in the appropriate medical setting. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• 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.
• Distant site: means a site at which a healthcare provider is located while providing healthcare services by means of telemedicine. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Health insurer: means any person, firm, or corporation offering and/or insuring healthcare services on a prepaid basis, including, but not limited to, a nonprofit service corporation, a health maintenance organization, the Rhode Island Medicaid program, including its contracted managed care entities, or an entity offering a policy of accident and sickness insurance. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Health maintenance organization: means a health maintenance organization as defined in chapter 41 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare facility: means an institution providing healthcare services or a healthcare setting, including, but not limited to: hospitals and other licensed, inpatient centers; ambulatory surgical or treatment centers; skilled nursing centers; residential treatment centers; diagnostic, laboratory and imaging centers; and rehabilitation and other therapeutic health settings. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare professional: means a physician or other healthcare practitioner licensed, accredited, or certified to perform specified healthcare services consistent with state law. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare provider: means a healthcare professional or a healthcare facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare services: means any services included in the furnishing to any individual of medical, podiatric, or dental care, or hospitalization, or incident to the furnishing of that care or hospitalization, and the furnishing to any person of any and all other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• 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.
• Medically necessary: means medical, surgical, or other services required for the prevention, diagnosis, cure, or treatment of a health-related condition, including services necessary to prevent a decremental change in either medical or mental health status. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Nonprofit service corporation: means a nonprofit hospital service corporation as defined in chapter 19 of this title, or a nonprofit medical service corporation as defined in chapter 20 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Originating site: means a site at which a patient is located at the time healthcare services are provided to them by means of telemedicine, which can include a patient's home where medically necessary and clinically appropriate. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Policy of accident and sickness insurance: means a policy of accident and sickness insurance as defined in chapter 18 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Rhode Island Medicaid program: means a state-administered, medical assistance program that is funded by the state and federal governments under Title XIX and Title XXI of the U. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Store-and-forward technology: means the technology used to enable the transmission of a patient's medical information from an originating site to the healthcare provider at the distant site without the patient being present. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Telemedicine: means the delivery of clinical healthcare services by use of real time, two-way synchronous audio, video, telephone-audio-only communications or electronic media or other telecommunications technology including, but not limited to: online adaptive interviews, remote patient monitoring devices, audiovisual communications, including the application of secure video conferencing or store-and-forward technology to provide or support healthcare delivery, which facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, counseling and prescribing treatment, and care management of a patient's health care while such patient is at an originating site and the healthcare provider is at a distant site, consistent with applicable federal laws and regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3