45-1302. Terms, defined.

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For purposes of the Medical Debt Relief Act:

(1)Bad debt expense means the cost of care for which a health care provider expected payment from the patient or a third-party payor, but which the health care provider subsequently determines to be uncollectible;

(2)Eligible resident means an individual eligible for relief who:

(a)Is a resident of the State of Nebraska; and

(b)Has a household income at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines or has medical debt equal to five percent or more of the individual's household income;

(3)Health care provider means:

(a)A facility licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act; and

(b)A health care professional licensed under the Uniform Credentialing Act;

(4)Medical debt means an obligation to pay money arising from the receipt of health care services;

(5)Medical debt relief means the discharge of a patient's medical debt;

(6)Medical debt relief coordinator means a person, company, partnership, or other entity that is able to discharge medical debt of an eligible resident in a manner that does not result in taxable income for the eligible resident; and

(7)Program means the Medical Debt Relief Program established in section 45-1303 .