OAR 409-022-0010: Definitions

The following definitions apply to OAR 409-022-0010 to 409-022-0070: (1) “Ambulatory Surgical Center” has the same meaning given that term in ORS 442.015. (2) "Ambulatory surgical discharge data" means the consolidation of complete billing, medical, and personal information describing a patient, the services received, and charges billed for a surgical or diagnostic procedure treatment in a hospital outpatient setting or an ambulatory surgical center setting into a data record. (3) “Authority” means the Oregon Health Authority. (4) "Emergency department discharge data" means the consolidation of complete billing, medical, and personal information describing a patient, the services received, and charges billed for treatment in a hospital emergency department for patients that were not subsequently admitted to the same hospital as an inpatient. (5) “Health Care Facility” has the same meaning given that term in ORS 442.015. (6) "Hospital” has the same meaning given that term in ORS 442.015. (7) “Hospital inpatient” means acute care provided at a hospital in which the patient was formally admitted under a doctor’s order. (8) “Hospital outpatient” means acute care provided at a hospital in which the patient is not formally admitted to the hospital under a doctor’s order. (9) “Inpatient discharge data” means the consolidation of complete billing, medical, and personal information describing a patient, the services received, and charges billed for a surgical or diagnostic procedure treatment in a hospital inpatient setting.