Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 33 > Chapter 7 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Coinsurance: means an enrollee's share of covered medical expenses when an enrollee and the HMO share in a specific ratio of the covered medical expenses. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
• Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in an HMO. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Evidence of coverage: means any certificate, agreement or contract issued to an enrollee setting out the coverage to which the enrollee is entitled. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
• Health care services: means any services included in the furnishing to any individual of medical or dental care, or hospitalization, or incidental to the furnishing of the care or hospitalization, as well as 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 Tennessee Code 56-32-102
• Hospital: means a public or private hospital or facility or part of a hospital or facility equipped to provide inpatient care and treatment for persons with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
• 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.
• Mental illness: means a psychiatric disorder, alcohol dependence, or drug dependence, but does not include intellectual disability or other developmental disabilities as defined in title 52. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• person: includes an individual, insurer, company, association, organization, Lloyds, society, reciprocal insurer or interinsurance exchange, partnership, syndicate, business trust, corporation, agent, general agent, broker, solicitor, service representative, adjuster, and every legal entity. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
• premiums: as used in this chapter includes, but is not limited to, any and all payments made by the state to any entity providing health care services pursuant to any federal waiver received by the state that waives any or all of Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, compiled in 42 U. See Tennessee Code 56-32-112
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Treatment resource: means any public or private facility, service, or program providing treatment or rehabilitation services for mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, including, but not limited to, detoxification centers, hospitals, community mental health centers, clinics or programs, halfway houses, and rehabilitation centers. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101