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Malpractice, Medical

• Advance payment by defendant
• Appeal, association, from
• Availability
• Casualty insurance, definition
• Claim, report
• Consent, informed
• Damages, apportionment
• Defendant, advance payment
• Definitions
• Guaranty, warranty, etc., breach
• Informed consent
• Instructions to jury, multiple defendants
• Insurance
• Application for
• Cancellation
• Charges
• Coverage, application for
• Definition
• Independent market
• Limit
• Policy by joint underwriters
• Rate
• Rating plan
• Insurance commissioner, report of settlement
• Joint underwriting association
• Annual examination
• Annual statement
• Appeal from
• Approval of plan
• Board of directors
• Categories
• Definitions
• Liability, exemption of member
• Member contributions
• Member, outside employment
• Participation, determination
• Plan of operation
• Powers
• Reserve fund
• Stabilization reserve fund
• Judgment, reduction by advance payment
• Jury instructions, multiple defendants
• Laetrile use, liability of physician limited
• Legislative intent
• Limit on supersedeas bond for punitive damages on appeal
• Limitation of action
• Medical review organization, member
• Multiple defendants
• Patients' compensation fund
• Premiums, registration
• Records from medical review organization
• Review of premiums by insurance department
• Stabilization reserve fund
• Member, exempt from liability
• Supersedeas bond for punitive damages on appeal, limit
• Written guaranty, contract, etc.

Mandamus

• Health facilities and services

Marijuana

• See Controlled Substances, generally.

Marine and Transportation Insurance

• Contract exceptions
• Defined

Marriage

• Collection of data relating to
• Therapist - See Marriage and Family Therapists.
• Venereal disease, examination for during pregnancy, 214.160, 214.170
• Penalties for violations

Marriage and Family Therapists, 335.300, 335.305, 335.307, 335.310, 335.315, 335.320, 335.325, 335.330, 335.332, 335.335, 335.340, 335.342, 335.348, 335.350, 335.360, 335.370, 335.380, 335.399

• Application of statute
• Associates
• Defined
• Permits
• Admonishment
• Disciplinary action
• Reinstatement, 335.348, 335.360
• Revocation or suspension
• Title, use
• Penalties for violations
• Board of licensure, 335.310, 335.315, 335.320, 335.325
• Annual report
• Contracts
• Members
• Immunity from liability
• Powers and duties, 335.320, 335.325
• Revolving fund
• Construction of statute
• Continuing education requirement
• Definitions
• Exemptions
• Fees
• Disposition of
• Licensure
• Renewal
• Fine for violations
• Hearings, disciplinary action
• Impaired therapist committee
• Licensure
• Admonishment
• Disciplinary
• Expiration
• Fees
• Proceedings
• Qualifications
• Reinstatement, 335.348, 335.360
• Renewal
• Requirements
• Revocation or suspension, 335.340, 335.348
• Penalties for violations
• Qualifications
• Title,use, 335.305, 335.307, 335.340
• Penalties for violations
• Violations, penalties for

Mattress Manufacturing Law, 214.280, 214.290, 214.300, 214.310

• Penalties for violations

Medicaid Program, 205.510, 205.512, 205.514, 205.516, 205.518, 205.520, 205.525, 205.530, 205.531, 205.540, 205.550, 205.558, 205.559, 205.560, 205.561, 205.5631, 205.5632, 205.5634, 205.5636, 205.5638, 205.5639, 205.564, 205.565, 205.566, 205.570, 205.575, 205.576, 205.577, 205.578, 205.580, 205.590, 205.592, 205.593, 205.594, 205.595, 205.596, 205.597, 205.598, 205.600, 205.604, 205.610, 205.620, 205.621, 205.622, 205.623, 205.624, 205.626, 205.627, 205.628, 205.629, 205.630

• Abortion, 205.560, 311.715
• Actions for repayment from third parties
• Administrative regulations
• Assets, sheltering prohibition
• Benefit violations
• Disproportionate share program
• Home maintenance organizations, quality and access standards
• Pharmacist fraud, reduction
• Resource collection capacity, third-party
• Advisory committees, technical
• Advisory council
• Powers and duties
• Staff assistance and information
• Ambulance and emergency transportation rates, rules and regulations
• See also Emergency vehicles, this heading
• Assets, sheltering prohibition
• Bases for payments
• Benefits, false statements in obtaining, 205.8453, 205.8465
• Care, standards, scope
• Certification; savings, cost control programs
• Chiropractors
• Community mental health center services
• Copayments, exceptions and limitations
• Cost reduction program, 205.6310, 205.6312, 205.6314, 205.6315, 205.6316, 205.6317, 205.63171, 205.6318, 205.6320, 205.6322, 205.6324, 205.6326, 205.6328, 205.6332, 205.6334
• Certification of savings
• Costs
• Copayments
• Emergency transportation providers
• Hospital emergency room care
• Institutional programs, reduction
• Reduction, programs, 205.6310, 205.6312, 205.6314, 205.6315, 205.6316, 205.6317, 205.63171, 205.6318, 205.6320, 205.6322, 205.6324, 205.6326, 205.6328, 205.6332, 205.6334
• Savings, control programs; certification of
• Deception - See Fraud, this heading.
• Definitions
• Health care provider tax
• Dental work
• Devices, authorized suppliers; annual list of owners
• Disciplinary proceedings, prohibitions
• Disproportionate share program
• Drugs
• Authorization, prior, 205.5632, 205.5634
• New drugs, definitions
• Organ transplants, preventing rejection
• Reforms
• Reimbursement for new drugs
• Eligibility
• Procedures, review
• Emergencies, approval by primary physician
• Emergency room utilization, control
• Emergency services; managed care primary physicians, duties
• Emergency vehicles
• Copayments, nominal
• Medical service verification
• Rates, review
• Enhanced payments, county-owned or operated hospitals
• Equipment, authorized suppliers; annual list of owners
• Expenses - See Costs, this heading.
• Facilities, annual list of owners
• Federal funds, policy as to
• Federal regulations, waiver
• Fees - See Costs, this heading.
• Fraud, 205.8451, 205.8453, 205.8455, 205.8457, 205.8459, 205.8461, 205.8463, 205.8465, 205.8467, 205.8469, 205.8471, 205.8473, 205.8475, 205.8477, 205.8479, 205.8481, 205.8483
• Attorney general to enforce
• Benefits in obtaining, 205.8453, 205.8455, 205.8465
• Criminal penalties 205.8461, 205.8463, 205.8469
• Defense to prosecution
• Definitions
• Duty to control
• Duty to report
• Health services cabinet, control by
• Hotline, toll free, for reporting
• License suspension and reinstatement, 205.8475, 205.8479
• Liens
• Pharmacists, reduction
• Photographic identification cards
• Prohibited acts
• Providers, liability for
• Recipient utilization review committees, control by
• Records and reports, 205.8455, 205.8465
• Hotline tips
• Reforms, health services cabinet; by
• Rules and regulations
• Health care provider tax, defined
• Health facilities, out-of-state
• Certificate of need required
• Health insurers, prohibitions
• Health maintenance organizations, services
• Hearings
• Hospital emergency room utilization, rules and regulations
• Hotline, 24-hour toll-free; fraud reporting
• Identification cards, photographic
• Improvements, health services cabinet; by
• Insurance companies, submission of information on coverage and claims paid
• KenPAC program managed care, rules and regulations
• Lead poisoning testing
• Liens, violations; for
• Lists
• Authorized suppliers of prescriptions, devices, equipment
• Owners, annual list
• Long-term care
• Asset sheltering, prohibition
• Case management demonstration program
• Discrimination against Medicare patients prohibited
• Quality of care mandates , consistency
• Recertification of recipient, limitations
• Reimbursements, to
• Rules and regulations
• Standardized patient assessment tool, implementation
• Managed care primary physicians, duties
• Emergencies
• Medicaid trust fund, creation
• Medical assistance indigent trust fund (MAIT)
• Medical assistance revolving trust fund (MART)
• Medical service verification, emergency vehicles
• Mentally retarded persons
• Community mental health center services
• Nominal copayments
• Nursing and rest homes - See Long-term care, this heading.
• Optometric services
• Owners of facilities, annual list
• Payments
• County-owned or operated hospitals
• Payor of last resort
• Pediatric teaching hospitals, costs
• Penalties for violations
• Personnel, in-house; service utilization
• Pharmacist reimbursements, rules and regulations
• Photographic identification cards
• Physicians and dentists, increased reimbursement
• Pregnant women, infants up to age one; eligibility
• Prescriptions
• Authorized suppliers, annual list
• Dispensing, use and abuse annual report
• Providers
• Approval for services and goods required
• Emergencies, approval by primary physician
• Liability for fraudulent practices
• License suspension, duty to report
• Ownership report, annual
• Reimbursement, overhead costs
• Remuneration, when prohibited
• Representation by attorney general staff prohibited
• Residential care for children, out-of-state
• Purpose
• Recipient abuse
• Recipient utilization review committee, 205.8455, 205.8457
• Records and reports
• Fraud, 205.8455, 205.8465
• General assembly, rules and regulations on
• Hotline, 24-hour toll-free; fraud and abuse reporting
• Licenses, reports of restrictions on
• Progress reports, reforms
• Recovery from third parties, 205.520, 205.622, 205.623, 205.624, 205.626, 205.628, 205.629
• Referrals, prohibited acts, 205.8461, 216.2950
• Reforms, 205.6310, 205.6312, 205.6314, 205.6315, 205.6316, 205.6317, 205.63171, 205.6318, 205.6320, 205.6322, 205.6324, 205.6326, 205.6328, 205.6332, 205.6334, 205.6336, 205.6338
• Regulations - See Administrative regulations, this headlining.
• Reimbursement for smoking cessation
Reimbursement systems, review
• Health services cabinet
• Remedies
• Remuneration, prohibited acts, 205.8461, 216.2950
• Penalties
• Reports - See Records and reports, this heading.
• Residential care for children, out-of-state providers, reimbursement
• Resource collection capacity, third-party
• Rules and regulations
• Savings, cost control programs
• Services
• Denial of, prohibition
• Frail elderly persons, pilot projects
• Monitoring use of
• Reforms, 205.6310, 205.6312, 205.6314, 205.6315, 205.6316, 205.6317, 205.63171, 205.6318, 205.6320, 205.6322, 205.6324, 205.6326, 205.6328, 205.6332, 205.6334, 205.6336, 205.6338
• Settlement from third party, reimbursement to cabinet
• Smoking cessation reimbursement
• Supplies, etc.
• Technical advisory committees
• Third-party payment
• Definition of third party
• Third-party resource collection, rules and regulations
• Toll-free telephone line, fraud reporting
• Trust funds, 205.640, 205.8467
• Uniformity of care standards
• Utilization review committee, 205.8455, 205.8457
• Utilization reviews, level of care
• Violations, penalties, 205.8461, 205.8471
• Providers, by
• Referrals
• Remuneration
• Review
• Waiver of federal law, request for

Medicaid Services Department

• Fraudulent practices
• Duty to control

Medical Assistance

• See Medicaid Program.

Medical Claims

• See Malpractice, Medical.

Medical Companies, Itinerant, 311.250, 311.990

Medical Examiners Office

• See also Coroners.
• Advisory commission
• Chief examiner
• Contract for facilities
• Coroner as medical examiner
• County examiner
• Deaths, investigation
• District examiner
• Duties
• Facilities
• Record copies
• Trust and agency fund
• Liability, immunity
• Program, purpose
• Reports as evidence
• Rules and regulations
• State examiner
• Studies and examinations
• Trust and agency fund

Medical Insurance

• See Health and Hospitalization Insurance.

Medical Laboratories

• See also Health Facilities and Services.
• Advisory committee
• Blood test
• Citation of law
• Definitions
• Director
• Qualifications
• Responsibility
• Enforcement jurisdiction
• Exceptions to law
• Fees
• Disposition
• License
• Splitting, prohibition
• Human specimens
• Collection
• Examination, restrictions
• Mails, use regulated
• Office for collection, license required
• Information confidential
• Injunction
• Inspection
• Laws, purpose
• Lead determination test
• Report of excess in blood
• License
• Appeal of suspension or revocation
• Application
• Collection of human specimens
• Contents, display
• Denial, revocation or suspension, grounds
• Exceptions
• Fee
• Hearing on revocation or suspension
• Limitations
• Renewal
• Required
• Revocation or suspension
• Term
• Transfer prohibited
• Notice, License revocation or suspension
• Penalties
• Personnel, qualifications
• AIDS course license requirement, planning for
• Prohibited activities, 333.240, 333.990
• Quality control programs
• Records
• Reports
• Operation, as to
• Test results
• Rules and regulations, scope
• School for personnel permit
• Test results, report
• Tests, limitation
• Tuberculosis case, report to local health department
• Unlicensed, nuisance
• Violations of law, penalties

Medical Licensure Board

• Appeals from
• Criteria to modify, remand, or disturb
• Compensation
• Contract with other state agency
• Creation
• Definitions
• Director for ambulance service, complaints against
• Disciplinary proceedings
• Dishonesty, fraud, or forgery prohibited
• Enforcement powers
• Fees
• Collection
• Use
• Grievance procedure
• Hearings
• Complaints, on
• Dishonesty, fraud, or forgery prohibited
• License suspension, limitation, or restriction
• Officers, appointment
• Panel
• Hiring attorneys, investigators
• Immunity for official acts
• Injunction, use
• Inquiry panel
• Interference, etc. with officers
• Judicial review of actions
• Judicial review of order
• Laetrile written informed request forms to be filed with
• Legislative purpose
• Limitation of authority
• Meeting
• Members
• Obstructing or interfering with, penalty
• Officers
• Opinions on unacceptable conduct
• Paramedics, certification, etc., 311.650, 311.652, 311.6521, 311.6522, 311.6523, 311.6524, 311.6525, 311.6526, 311.654, 311.6541, 311.655, 311.656, 311.6561, 311.6563, 311.6577, 311.6579, 311.658, 311A.115, 311A.120, 311A.027
• See also Paramedics, at Certification.
• Dual Certification as emergency medical technicians
• Powers and duties
• Impaired physicians committee, 311.616, 311.617
• Prosecution of violations
• Records
• Records and reports
• Peer review records, seizure and inspection of
• Report, annual
• Report of violations to
• Reports of violations to
• Rules and regulations, promulgation
• Sexual misconduct by physicians
• Effect on license, 311.591, 311.595
• Investigation guidelines
• Penalties for violations
• Training
• Show cause orders
• Term

Medical Malpratice

• See Malpratice, Medical.

Medical Review Organization

• Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, applicability
• Member, liability
• Records, use

Medical Schools

• Corpses, acquisition - See Corpses, at Medical college, procurement by.

Medical Services, Emergency

• See also Emergency Medical Services.

Medical Technicians Emergency

• See Emergency Medical Technicians; Paramedics.

Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program

Medicare Supplemental Insurance, 304.14-500, 304.14-510, 304.14-520, 304.14-530, 304.14-540, 304.14-550

• Claim denial restrictions
• Definitions
• Ineligible for Medicare because of age, 304.17-311, 304.18-034, 304.38-205
• Loss ratios, standards
• Notice, policy return and premium refund rights
• Outline of coverage
• Policies
• Return rights, notice
• Standards
• Pooling of claims experience required, 304.18-055, 304.38-194
• Premium refund rights, notice
• Referrals, prohibited acts
• Remuneration, prohibited acts
• Standards
• Loss ratios
• Violations, penalties
• Referrals
• Remuneration

Mental Health Act, Juveniles

• Administrative regulations
• Appeals
• Attorney
• Appointment
• Child's right to consult
• Certification, fees
• Certification petition, 645.040, 645.050, 645.060
• Contesting
• Denial, procedures
• Emergency Hospitalization
• Granted, procedure
• Notice to parent or custodian
• Communications, right to
• Contesting into to leave
• Convalescent leave
• Court designated workers, rights and duties
• Court orders
• Definitions
• Discharge petition
• Duty to warm intended victim of patient's threat of violence
• Emergency hospitalization
• Notice to parent or custodian
• Evidence
• Child's disclosures, use
• Child's rights to present at hearings
• Hearings
• Certification petition, on
• Notice of intent to leave, following
• Treatment
• Hospitalization, 645.030, 645.035, 645.040, 645.050, 645.060, 645.070, 645.080, 645.090, 645.100
• See also Involuntary hospitalization, this heading
• Criteria
• Emergency
• Notice to parent or custodian
• Involuntary hospitalization, 645.040, 645.050, 645.060
• Prerequisities
• Voluntary hospitalization
• Notice to parent or custodian
• Hospital review committee
• Involuntary hospitalization, 645.040, 645.050, 645.060
• Prerequisites
• Status offense for purpose of, prohibited
• Jurisdiction
• Juveniles tried as adults, not applicable
• Notice of intent to leave, 645.190, 645.200, 645.210
• Contest of
• Right to give
• Notice of withdrawal child
• Parents
• Application for child's admission to hospital
• Hearings, right to participate
• Recertification procedure
• Records
• Recommendation for review
• Regulations
• Rehospitalization of patient on convalescent leave
• Release
• Child objecting to
• Notice of intent to leave, following
• Notice to withdrawal of child, following
• Notification
• Request for
• Treatment denial by court
• Review of patients' individual treatment plan
• Rights of child
• Attorney, right to consult
• Communications
• Cross-examination of hearing witnesses
• Evidence, presentation at hearings
• Hearings, presence
• Notice of intent to leave, right to give
• Rights of parents
• Threats of violence by patient, duty to warn intended victim
• Treatment plan, review
• Violations, penalties
• Voluntary hospitalization
• See also Hospitalization, this heading.
• Notice to parent or custodian

Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services Department

• Deaf persons, advisory committee
• Reports, biennial

Mental Health Hospitalization Act

• See Mentally Ill or Retarded, at Hospitalization, mentally ill.

Mental Institutions

• See Mentally Ill or Retarded, at Hospital or institution, and Hospitalization, mentally ill.

Mentally Ill or Retarded

• Admission, mentally retarded
• Annual review
• Definitions
• Ad valorem tax for community programs
• Appeals
• Mentally ill person, commitment proceedings
• Mentally Retarded Person, Involuntary Admission Proceedings
• Arrest, 202A.041, 202A.051
• Attorney for respondent
• Involuntary admission hearings, mentally retarded, 202B.210, 202B.250
• Behavior, written documentation, warrantless arrest
• Boarding homes
• Board, patient liability
• Certification, mentally retarded
• Involuntary admission, temporary
• Intermediate care facility
• Out-of-state residents, by qualified mental retardation professional
• Child
• See also Mental Health Act, juveniles.
• Chronic mental illness
• Defined
• Health services cabinet, duties
• Community program
• Ad valorem tax, special
• Appropriations by city or county
• Assistance, state, application for
• Board
• Fiduciary, as
• Powers and duties
• Recognition, withdrawal by secretary
• Taxing district Governing board as
• Term, vacancy, etc.
• Caretaker administrator
• Cities or counties joining
• Conflict of interest, board officers and employees, 210.110, 210.990
• Consultation and educational services
• Contributions by city or county
• Court ordered treatment
• Detoxification units, services
• Drug addiction treatment
• Emergency services
• Establishment, cities and counties may join
• Fiduciary, board acting as
• Limit on state grants
• Mentally retarded, court-ordered treatment
• Secretary for health services, duties
• Services provided
• State aid
• Allocation of funds
• Distribution formula
• Emergency
• Funds, allocation, withdrawal
• Limitation on amount
• Plan, budget and membership to be submitted for
• Withdrawal of recognition of board as local authority
• Taxing district
• Compact on mental health, interstate, 210.520, 210.530, 210.540, 210.550
• Conspiracy, unwarranted hospitalization or denial of rights
• Convalescent status, release on
• Mentally ill
• Mentally retarded
• Correctional institution
• Psychiatric care
• Transfer to or from, 202A.201, 210.140
• Correspondence by patient
• Denial, penalty
• Costs, transportation to hospital or institution involuntary hospitalization
• County attorney
• Involuntary admission, mentally retarded
• Duties
• Review hearing, notice
• Criminal, habitual; mental examination
• Death
• Cabinet as administrator of estate
• Regional board administering estate
• Definitions, 202A.011, 202B.010, 210.005
• Duties of health services cabinet
• Emergency detention
• Escape from institution
• Evaluation procedure for reclassification of patient's level of care
• Evaluation subsequent to arrest
• Evidence
• Qualified mental retardation professionals reports
• Examination
• Certification of, mentally retarded
• Fee for
• Hospital staff physician
• Involuntary admission, mentally retarded
• Respondent's doctor to be present
• Prisoners
• Respondent's doctor to be present
• Involuntary admission, mentally retarded
• Extradition of nonresident patient
• Goods, production by patients
• Habeas corpus writ for release
• Mentally retarded
• Habitual criminal, examination
• Health care provider tax
• Health insurance coverage, mental health, 304.17-318, 304.18-036
• Health maintenance organization
• Holding prior t