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The term "health care facility" means a facility in which medical care, diagnosis, or treatment is provided on an inpatient or outpatient basis. Such term does not includ

The term “health care group” means a group of physicians (as defined in subparagraph (A)) organized at least in part for the purpose of providing physicians’ services under this su

The term "health care industry stakeholder" means any— (A) health plan, health care clearinghouse, or health care provider; (B) advocate for patients or consumers; (C) ph

The term “health care institution” shall include any hospital, convalescent hospital, health maintenance organization, health clinic, nursing home, extended care facility, or other

The term “health care operation” has the meaning given such term in section 164.501 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.

The term “health care operations” has the meaning given such term for purposes of the HIPAA regulations.

The term “health care organization” means any individual or entity which is obligated to provide, pay for, or administer health benefits under any health plan.

The term “healthcare partner”’ means a healthcare provider, including— (A) a hospital; (B) a Federally-qualified health center (as defined in section 1905( l ) of the Social Securi

The term "health care practitioner" means a person authorized under law to prescribe drugs subject to section 353(b) of title 21.

The term “health-care professional” means a physician, dentist, clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist certified as such by a certification recognized by the Secretar

The term “health care professional of the Department” means an individual working for the Department in a position described in section 7401 of this title , including a contractor

the term “health care provider” means— (A) a doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery (as appropriate) by the State in which the doctor pr

The term “health-care providers” includes health-care plans and insurers and any organizations, institutions, or other entities or individuals who furnish health-care resources.

The term "health care related expenses attributable to COVID–19" means health care related expenses to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID–19, including the buildi

In this subsection (except as provided in paragraph (6)), the term “health care related tax” means a tax (as defined in paragraph (7)(F)) that— (i) is related to health care items

The term “health-care resource” includes hospital care and medical services (as those terms are defined in section 1701 of this title), services under sections 1782 and 1783 of thi

The term “health care services” includes products provided or purchased through a facility of the uniformed services. / The term “health care services” means any services provided

The term “health care sharing ministry” means an organization— (I) which is described in section 501(c)(3) and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a), (II) members of which s

the term “health care visit”— (A) means a visit, as determined by the Director, by a prisoner to an institutional or noninstitutional health care provider; and (B) does not include

The term “health care workforce” includes all health care providers with direct patient care and support responsibilities, such as physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, primary

For purposes of this section, the term “health center” means an entity that serves a population that is medically underserved, or a special medically underserved population compris

The term “health disparities research” means basic, clinical, and behavioral research on health disparity populations (including individual members and communities of such populati

The term “health disparity population” means a population that, as determined by the Secretary, has a significant disparity in the overall rate of disease incidence, prevalence, mo

The term “health education and training center” means an entity that is a recipient of an award under paragraph (1).

The term “Health Extension Agent” means any local, community-based health worker who facilitates and provides assistance to primary care practices by implementing quality improveme

The term “health facility” means an Indian health service center, a Native Hawaiian health center, a hospital, a federally qualified health center, a rural health clinic, a nursing

The term “health home” means a designated provider (including a provider that operates in coordination with a team of health care professionals) or a health team selected by an eli

The term “health home services” means comprehensive and timely high-quality services described in subparagraph (B) that are provided by a designated provider, a team of health care

The term “health information” means any information, whether oral or recorded in any form or medium, that— (A) is created or received by a health care provider, health plan, public

The term “health information technology” means hardware, software, integrated technologies or related licenses, intellectual property, upgrades, or packaged solutions sold as servi

an undertaking by one person for reasons satisfactory to him to indemnify another for losses caused by illness

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “health insurance coverage” means benefits consisting of medical care (provided directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or ot

The term “health insurance issuer” means an insurance company, insurance service, or insurance organization (including a health maintenance organization, as defined in paragraph (3

Laws designed to preserve the public health.

The term “health literacy” means the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand health information and services in order to make

a prepaid organized delivery system where the organization and the primary care physicians assume some financial risk for the care provided to its enrolled members.

The term "Health MAP" means the Marine Mammal Health Monitoring and Analysis Platform established under section 1421f–2(a)(1) of this title.

The officer enforces the right of the wife’s equity to a charged with the exeeution and enforcement settlement, Snell, fg. (5th Hd.) 374. of health laws. The powers and duties of

An officer, usually municipal, charged with the enforcement of health laws.

For purposes of this section, the term “health opportunity account” means an account that meets the requirements of this subsection.

The terms "health care clearinghouse", "health care provider", and "health plan" have the meanings given such terms in section 160.103 of title 45, Co

The term “health-plan contract” includes any of the following: (A) An insurance policy or contract, medical or hospital service agreement, membership or subscription contract, or s

The term “health problem” means a disease or medical ailment or an environmental condition that poses the risk of disease or medical ailment. The term includes diseases, ailments,

The term “Health profession” means allopathic medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, geriatric medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, podiatric medicine, nursing,

For purposes of this paragraph the term “health professional” means physicians, dentists, nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, and such other individuals engaged in the delivery of h

The term “health professionals” includes— (A) dentists, dental hygienists, primary care providers, specialty physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psycholo

The term "health professional shortage area" means a health professional shortage area designated under section 254e of this title. / The term "health professional s

In this subsection, the term “health professions officer” means an officer or enlisted member of the Coast Guard in good standing who is— (A) a physician, surgeon, medical speciali

The term “health professions school” means, except as provided in subparagraph (B), a school of medicine, a school of osteopathic medicine, a school of dentistry, a school of pharm

The term “health program administered directly by the Indian Health Service” means a “health program administered by the Service” 2 as such term is used in section 1603(12)(A) of t

The term “health promotion” means any activity for— (A) fostering social, economic, environmental, and personal factors conducive to health, including raising public awareness rega

The term “health-related activities” means advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities that result in individuals with developmental disabilities having access to a

The term “health-related tasks” means specific tasks related to the needs of an individual, which can be delegated or assigned by licensed health-care professionals under State law

the term “health research” shall include, but not be limited to, research, investigations, and studies relating to causes and methods of prevention of accidents, including but not

The term “health savings account” means a trust created or organized in the United States as a health savings account exclusively for the purpose of paying the qualified medical ex

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “health services research” means research endeavors that study the impact of the organization, financing and management of health services

The term “health status and resource deficiency” means the extent to which— (A) the health status objectives set forth in sections 1602(1) and 1602(2) of this title are not being a

The term "health status-related factor" means any of the factors described in section 1182(a)(1) of this title. / The term “health status-related factor” means any of the

The term “health system” means a collection of hospitals that are owned and operated by the same entity and that share access to databases with drug order information for their pat

The term “health systems agency” means an entity which is designated in accordance with section 300 l –4 of this title.

The term “health team” has the meaning given such term for purposes of section 256a–1 of this title . / The term “health team” has the meaning given such term for purposes of secti

Free from disease or bodily ailment or from a state of the system susceptible or liable to disease or bodily ailment. Bell V. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 357.

In clause (ii), the term “healthy marriage promotion activities” means the following: (I) Public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase ma

The term “ Healy ” means Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20).

That kind of measure in which the commodities measured are heaped above the top of the vessel containing them.

The requirement that three judges hear and determine an application means that they must adjudicate the issues of law and fact which are presented by the case, a function which imp

The purpose of the act was to provide security for the payment of all persons who provide labor or material on public work. This was done by giving a claim under the bond in lieu o

Historically and in practice, in our own country at least, it has always included the right to the aid of counsel when desired and provided by the party asserting the right. The ri

the term "hearing examiner" includes any medical or claims examiner; / the term “hearing examiner” includes any medical or claims examiner.

The term “hearing officer” means an individual employed by the Division who hears and determines appeals of adverse decisions by any agency. / In this subsection, the term "He

the hearing which must precede the taking of property is not a mere form. The carrier must have the right to secure and present evidence material to the issue under investigation.

the word 'hearing'—when put in the context of the whole scheme for review set forth in § 6(j)—[does not] comprehend the formal and litigious procedures which respondents' interpret

That hearsay evidence is incompetent to establish any specific fact, which fact is in its nature susceptible of being proved by witnesses who speak from their own knowledge.

when evidence of that character is admitted without objection, it is to be considered and given its natural probative effect as if it were in law admissible.

hearsay may be the basis for a warrant...there was substantial basis for him to conclude that narcotics were probably present in the apartment, and that is sufficient

That boundaries may be proved by hearsay testimony, is a rule well settled... Land marks are frequently formed of perishable materials, which pass away with the generation in which

One of these rules is, that 'hearsay' evidence is in its own nature inadmissible. That this species of testimony supposes some better testimony which might be adduced in the partic

We think it a safe principle, that memorandums made by a person in the ordinary course of his business, of acts or matters which his duty in such business requires him to do for ot

To this rule there are some exceptions which are said to be as old as the rule itself. These are cases of pedigree, of prescription, of custom, and in some cases of boundary. There

an affidavit may be based on hearsay information and need not reflect the direct personal observations of the affiant, so long as the magistrate is informed of some of the underlyi

The term “heart diseases” means diseases of the heart and circulation;

A tax, granted by 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 10, abolished 1 Wm. & Mary, st. 1, c. 10, of two shillings on every hearth or stove in England and Wales, except such as pay not to the church

A sort of modus for tithes, viz., a prescription for cutting down and using for fuel the tithe of wood. 2 Burn, Ecc. Law, 304.

In criminal law. Furor brevis, sudden passion caused by reasonable provocation. It is a characteristic of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, a killing without malice in heat of p

The terms “heat pump” or “reverse cycle” mean a product, other than a packaged terminal heat pump, which— (A) consists of one or more assemblies; (B) is powered by single phase ele

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term "heat rate" means the amount of energy used by the qualified facility to generate 1 kilowatt hour of electricity, expressed as

the term “heave to” means to cause a vessel to slow, come to a stop, or adjust its course or speed to account for the weather conditions and sea state to facilitate a law enforceme

For purposes of this subchapter the term “heavy bodied blending wine” means wine made from fruit without added sugar, and with or without added wine spirits, and conforming to the

The term “heavy-duty truck” has the meaning given the term “heavy duty vehicle” in section 7521 of this title .

The term “heavy-duty vehicle” means a vehicle that— (A) has a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 8,500 pounds; and (B) is powered by a diesel engine. / The term “heavy-duty v

The term “heavy maintenance work” means a C-check, a D-check, or equivalent maintenance operation with respect to the airframe of a transport-category aircraft (including on-wing a

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “heavy oil” means domestic crude oil produced from any property if such crude oil had a weighted average gravity of 20 degrees API or less

The term “heavy petroleum fuel oil” means number 4, 5, or 6 fuel oil which is domestically refined.

The terms "passenger vehicle", "light truck", and "heavy truck" have the meanings given those terms in article 1 of the automotive appendix.

On who fished unlawfully below London bridge.

The privilege of having goods of thief and trial of him within such a liberty. Cart. S. Edmundi MS. 163; Cowell. HEDAGIUM (Saxon, heda, hitha, port). A toll or custom paid at the h

A device for catching fish in ebbing water. Stat. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.

A week; a space of seven days.

A week’s man; a canon, or prebendary In a cathedral church, who has the care of the choir and the officers belonging to it, for his own week. Cowell.

Tlie king’s edict commanding his subjects into the field.