Medically indigent definition

Medically indigent means a person requiring medically

Medically indigent means a person requiring medically necessary hospital or other health care services for the person or the dependents of the person who has no public or private third- party coverage, and whose personal resources are insufficient to provide for needed health care;

Medically indigent means any person whose income is below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level and who is uninsured unless otherwise defined by Louisiana law.

Examples of Medically indigent in a sentence

• Medically indigent persons receiving discounted health care services from qualified health care providers are subject to certain limitations and requirements.

• Medically indigent charity care: Health care services rendered in the absence of sufficient financial resources to cover the costs of care without catastrophic affect upon the individual family, in the absence of catastrophic health care coverage, and to those without third party insurance, which precludes the ability of the individual to pay for services, regardless of income level.

• Medically indigent CONSUMERs who are involuntarily committed to the PROVIDER and who are neither CONSUMERs of the PROVIDER or CONSUMERs of the PAYOR at the time of commitment, shall become CONSUMERs of the PAYOR and shall become the financial responsibility of the PAYOR under this Agreement following an authorization for services by the PAYOR and the PAYOR securing the CONSUMER's written consent.

• Medically indigent patients do not have appropriate insurance coverage that applies to services related to neonatal care, open-heart surgery, cancer, long and/or intensive care, etc., within the context of medical necessity.

• In 1989 delegates to the LWVNM Convention adopted a new study of “delivery of health care to the working poor and other medically indigent persons.” Medically indigent was interpreted to mean those having no health care insurance; it was determined that 25% of the population of New Mexico had no health coverage.

More Definitions of Medically indigent

Medically indigent means a person eligible to receive Medicaid or Medicare or a person who has no health insurance and who otherwise lacks reasonable means to purchase prescribed drugs.

Medically indigent means a person eligible to receive Medicaid or Medicare benefits or a person who has no prescription drug coverage and who otherwise lacks reasonable means to purchase prescribed drugs.

Medically indigent means any person who is in need of a legend drug and who is not eligible for medicaid or medicare, who cannot afford pri- vate prescription drug insurance or who does not have income and other re- sources available sufficient to pay for the legend drug.

Medically indigent means a person eligible to receive Medicaid or Medicare or a

Medically indigent means a patient whose medical or hospital bills from all BSWH related providers, after payment by all third parties, are equal to or greater than 5% of their Yearly Household Income and, whose Yearly Household Income is greater than 200% but less than or equal to 500% of the FPG as set forth in Schedule B of the Financial Assistance Eligibility Discount Guidelines (Attachment B). These Medically Indigent patients will owe the lesser of the patient’s account balance or 10% of the patient’s gross charges not to exceed the calculated AGB amount as described in Section 4.

Medically indigent means applicants whose individual or family gross income is defined at as Income Level A.

Medically indigent means an underinsured patient of a CRMC Hospital Facility who meets the criteria below: