Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 63 > Chapter 1 > Part 5 - Health Care Empowerment

• 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}
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Direct medical care agreement: means a written contractual agreement between a direct medical care provider and an individual patient, or the patient's legal representative, in which:
  (A) The direct medical care provider agrees to provide medical care services to the individual patient for an agreed fee over an agreed period of time. See Tennessee Code 63-1-502
• Medical care service: includes the screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for the purpose of promotion of health or the detection and management of disease or injury within the competency and training of the direct medical care provider. See Tennessee Code 63-1-502
• Medical products: include medical drugs and pharmaceuticals. See Tennessee Code 63-1-502
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105