Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-67-1 - Definitions

For purposes of the regulations in this article, the following words, terms and phrases are hereby defined as follows:

(a) "Aggregate data" means data which is obtained by combining like data in a manner which precludes specific identification of an individual.

(b) "Board" means the health care data governing board.

(c) "CHES" means the center for health and environmental statistics.

(d) "Compilation" means the arrangement of data collected by and furnished to the secretary acting under agreement with the secretary for release and dissemination to the public.

(e) "Fee fund" means the health care database fee fund created by K.S.A. 65-6804 and amendments thereto.

(f) "Health care data" means any data relating to health care, health status, including environmental factors, the health care system, costs and outcomes.

(g) "Health care information" means any health data that has been transformed from its raw form into a more general, less-technical form.

(h) "Health care provider" means any person, organization or entity that renders health care services as described in K.S.A. 65-6805 and amendments thereto.

(i) "Individual" means a single human being.

(j) "Patient or client" means an individual who receives any health care service.

(k) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership, corporation or other entity.

(l) "Primary data collection" means data that were previously unavailable for distribution to the public and are initially collected pursuant to this act.

(m) "Public domain data" means data that were previously collected and available to the public by another source.

(n) "Public health data" means data including epidemiological, health status and community health assessment data.

(o) "Public use data" means data that are available to the general public. This includes data available in electronic or any other form.

(p) "Record identifier" means a unique code generated and assigned to an individual record and used to identify that individual record among databases.

(q) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Kansas department of health and environment.

(r) "State agency" means any regents institution or department under the direction of a cabinet secretary, an elected official or regulatory board.

(s) "Third party payer" means any public or private payer of health care services and includes accident and sickness insurers, health maintenance organizations, health plans and alliances, nonprofit medical and hospital service organizations, and fiscal intermediaries for government-funded programs.

Notes

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-67-1

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 65-6804, as amended by L. 1994, Ch. 90, sec. 3; effective Dec. 19, 1994.