Common use of Definition of Emergency Care Clause in Contracts

Definition of Emergency Care. Provider agrees that for the purposes of providing health care services to Customers under Benefit Plans, “emergency care” shall mean health care services provided in a hospital emergency facility or comparable facility to evaluate and stabilize medical conditions of a recent onset and severity, including but not limited to severe pain, that would lead a prudent layperson, possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health, to believe that his or her condition, sickness or injury is of such a nature that failure to get immediate medical care could result in (1) placing the patient’s health in serious jeopardy; (2) serious impairment to bodily functions; (3) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part; (4) serious disfigurement; or (5) in the case of a pregnant woman, serious jeopardy to the health of her fetus.

Definition of Emergency Care. Provider agrees You and we agree that for the purposes purpose of providing health care services to Customers for enrollees under Benefit Plansour benefit contracts, “emergency care” shall mean health care services provided in a hospital emergency facility or comparable facility to evaluate and stabilize medical conditions of a recent onset and severity, including but not limited to severe pain, that would lead a prudent layperson, possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health, to believe that his or her condition, sickness sickness, or injury is of such a nature that failure to get immediate medical care could result in in: (1) placing the patient’s health in serious jeopardy; (2) serious impairment to bodily functions; (3) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part; (4) serious disfigurement; or (5) in the case of a pregnant woman, serious jeopardy to the health of her fetus.

Definition of Emergency Care. Provider agrees that for the purposes of providing health care services to Customers under United’s Benefit Plans, “emergency care” shall mean health care services provided in a hospital emergency facility or comparable facility to evaluate and stabilize medical conditions of a recent onset and severity, including but not limited to severe pain, that would lead a prudent layperson, possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health, to believe that his or her condition, sickness or injury is of such a nature that failure to get immediate medical care could result in in: (1) placing the patient’s health in serious jeopardy; (2) serious impairment to bodily functions; (3) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part; (4) serious disfigurement; or (5) in the case of a pregnant woman, serious jeopardy to the health of her fetus.