Section 7 AAC 145.739 - DefinitionsIn 7 AAC 145.700 - 7 AAC 145.739,
(1) "charity care" means health care services that(A) a health clinic does not expect to result in cash payments;(B) result from a health clinic's policy to provide health care services free of charge to an individual who meets certain financial criteria; and(C) are provided for by a health care provider, clinician, volunteer, or staff member, and for which the health care provider, clinician, volunteer or staff member does not expect to receive payment;(2) "health clinic" has the meaning given in 7 AAC 140.229;(3) "visit" means the aggregate of in-person and synchronous telehealth encounters, occurring on the same calendar day and at a single location, between the health clinic recipient and one or more rural health clinic professionals; for purposes of this paragraph, "aggregate of in-person and synchronous telehealthencounters" does not include (A) multiple encounters in which, after the first encounter, the recipient suffers an additional illness or injury requiring additional diagnosis or treatment;(B) an encounter for dental or mental health diagnosis or treatment that occurs on the same calendar day and single location as one or more encounters for medical diagnosis or treatment; or(4) "adjusted Medicare cost report" means a base year's Medicare cost report that has been adjusted in accordance with 7 AAC 145.700 - 7 AAC 145.720.Eff. 2/1/2010, Register 193; am 9/1/2023, Register 247, October 2023; am 2/16/2024, Register 249, April 2024Authority:AS 47.05.010
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