(a)As used in this act:
(i)"Contract" means an agreement executed in
compliance with this act between:
(A)A medical facility and the department that
authorizes the medical facility to deliver volunteer health care
services to low income persons in consideration for being deemed
a medical facility of the state under the Wyoming Governmental
Claims Act when performing duties under the contract; or
(B)A health care provider and the department
that authorizes the health care provider to deliver volunteer
health care services to low income persons in consideration for
being deemed a public employee of the state under the Wyoming
Governmental Claims Act when performing duties under the
contract.
(ii)"Department" means the department of health;
(iii)"Health care provider" means any person
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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Contract" means an agreement executed in
compliance with this act between:
(A) A medical facility and the department that
authorizes the medical facility to deliver volunteer health care
services to low income persons in consideration for being deemed
a medical facility of the state under the Wyoming Governmental
Claims Act when performing duties under the contract; or
(B) A health care provider and the department
that authorizes the health care provider to deliver volunteer
health care services to low income persons in consideration for
being deemed a public employee of the state under the Wyoming
Governmental Claims Act when performing duties under the
contract.
(ii) "Department" means the department of health;
(iii) "Health care provider" means any person
licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the law of this
state to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent impairments of the
normal state of the mind and body, including but not limited to
physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists,
optometrists, dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists and social
workers;
(iv) "Low income person" means a person with an
income not greater than two hundred percent (200%) of the
current poverty line as specified by the poverty guidelines
updated periodically in the Federal Register by the United
States Department of Health and Human Services under the
authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2) and:
(A) The person is not a covered individual under
a health insurance or health care policy, contract or plan; or
(B) The person is a covered individual under a
health insurance or health care policy, contract or plan, but
was denied coverage by the policy, contract or plan.
(v) "Medical facility" means:
(A) A hospital, clinic, office, nursing home, or
other facility where a health care provider provides health care
to patients; and
(B) Provided that neither the medical facility
nor individual health care provider receives compensation from
or on behalf of the patient, "medical facility" includes all
individuals, regardless of whether the individual receives
wages, salary or other fees or compensation from the medical
facility, who:
(I) Are employed by or under contract with
the medical facility to provide health care to patients; or
(II) Have been granted privileges by the
medical facility to provide health care to patients.
(vi) "Patient" includes clients of health care
providers or medical facilities as defined by paragraph (iii) or
(v) of this subsection;
(vii) "Volunteer health care" means services intended
to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent impairments of the normal
state of the mind and body when the provider of those services
does not charge or receive compensation for the services from,
or on behalf of, the patient;
(viii) "This act" means W.S. 35-31-101 through