Title 16, HEALTH

Sec. 5. (a) The commission shall prepare a schedule of costs for the following: (1) Emergency medical services. (2) Administering a claim made against the fund. The schedule must be based on the different levels of emergency response required in the types of accidents caused by o…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "child" means a child who is: (1) at least three (3) years of age and less than seven (7) years of age; or (2) enrolled in a public school, state accredited nonpublic school (as defined in IC 20-18-2-18.7), or nonaccredited nonpublic school in kin…

Sec. 10. (a) The parent or guardian of a child may at any time apply to the state department for funding through the hearing aid assistance program. (b) Upon receipt of an application made under subsection (a), if the state department determines that the child is eligible under s…

Sec. 11. A public or nonpublic school may identify eligible children and assist the parents or guardians of the eligible children in submitting applications to the state department under this chapter. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 12. (a) The state department shall give funding priority to applications under this chapter for eligible children who are less than fourteen (14) years of age. (b) The funding priority described in subsection (a) has the highest priority. However, the state department may is…

Sec. 13. (a) The state department may, if economically feasible, create a hearing aid refurbishing program through which hearing aids that are no longer used by eligible children and other individuals are collected and refurbished for the use of other individuals. (b) The state d…

Sec. 14. The state department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement this chapter. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "fund" refers to the hearing aid fund established by section 3 of this chapter. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 3. The hearing aid fund is established for the purpose of providing hearing aid assistance to eligible children through the hearing aid assistance program established by section 9 of this chapter. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 4. The fund shall be administered by the state department. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 5. (a) The fund consists of appropriations from the general assembly, gifts, bequests, and other sources of funding. (b) Expenditures for the program may not exceed the amounts appropriated, gifted, bequeathed, or provided to the fund. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1. Amende…

Sec. 6. The expenses of administering the fund shall be paid from money in the fund. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 7. The treasurer of state shall invest the money in the fund not currently needed to meet the obligations of the fund in the same manner as other public money may be invested. Interest that accrues from these investments shall be deposited in the fund. As added by P.L.119-20…

Sec. 8. (a) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert to the state general fund. (b) There is annually appropriated to the state department from the fund an amount sufficient for the purposes of this chapter. As added by P.L.119-2009, SEC.1.

Sec. 9. (a) The hearing aid assistance program is established. (b) The following eligibility criteria apply for funding through the hearing aid assistance program: (1) The hearing aid must be: (A) prescribed for a child by a physician who is licensed under IC 25-22.5; and (B) pre…

Sec. 1. Providers and the providers' employees, agents, and representatives are immune from civil action for libel or slander arising from information or entries made in a patient health record if the information or entries are made in good faith and without malice. [Pre-1993 Rec…

Sec. 2. This chapter applies to mental health records. As added by P.L.4-1997, SEC.12.

Sec. 0.2. As used in this chapter, "business associate" has the meaning set forth in 45 CFR 160.103. As added by P.L.143-2025, SEC.30.

Sec. 0.5. As used in this chapter, "covered entity" has the meaning set forth in 45 CFR 160.103. As added by P.L.143-2025, SEC.31.

Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "potentially disease transmitting offense" means any of the following: (1) Battery (IC 35-42-2-1) or domestic battery (IC 35-42-2-1.3) involving placing a bodily fluid or waste on another person. (2) An offense relating to a criminal sexual ac…

Sec. 2. (a) Identifying information voluntarily given to the health officer or an agent of the health officer through a voluntary contact notification program may not be used as evidence in a court proceeding to determine noncompliant behavior under IC 16-41-1 through IC 16-41-16…

Sec. 3. (a) Except as otherwise provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-35-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993,…

Sec. 4. (a) This section: (1) applies to the release of medical information that may be relevant to the prosecution or defense of a person who has been charged with a potentially disease transmitting offense; and (2) does not apply to the disclosure by a covered entity, business …

Sec. 5. (a) This section does not apply to medical testing of an individual for whom an indictment or information is filed for a sex crime and for whom a request to have the individual tested under section 6 of this chapter is filed. (b) The following definitions apply throughout…

Sec. 6. (a) If an indictment or information alleges that the defendant compelled another person to engage in sexual activity by force or threat of force, the alleged victim of the offense described in the indictment or information may request that the defendant against whom the i…

Sec. 10. Financial assistance shall be available to individuals who are unable to pay for services on a continuing basis. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-2-4-10.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.29.

Sec. 2. The state department shall establish a program for the purpose of prevention, care, and treatment of chronic renal disease. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-2-4-2.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.29.

Sec. 9. The state department shall do the following: (1) Develop programs for the prevention, care, and treatment of persons suffering from chronic renal diseases, including dialysis, transplantation, and other medical procedures and techniques which will have a lifesaving effect…

Sec. 1. A home state shall have exclusive power to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 2. If an individual's license in any home state is restricted or suspended, the individual shall not be eligible to practice in a remote state under the privilege to practice until the individual's home state license is restored. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 3. (a) All home state adverse action orders shall include a statement that the individual's compact privileges are inactive. The order may allow the individual to practice in remote states with prior written authorization from both the home state and remote state's EMS autho…

Sec. 4. A member state shall report adverse actions and any occurrences that the individual's compact privileges are restricted, suspended, or revoked to the commission in accordance with the rules of the commission. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 5. A remote state may take adverse action on an individual's privilege to practice within that state. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 6. Any member state may take adverse action against an individual's privilege to practice in that state based on the factual findings of another member state, so long as each state follows its own procedures for imposing the adverse action. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 7. A home state's EMS authority shall investigate and take appropriate action with respect to reported conduct in a remote state as the home state would if the conduct had occurred within the home state. In such cases, the home state's law shall control in determining the ap…

Sec. 8. (a) Nothing in this compact shall override a member state's decision that participation in an alternative program may be used in lieu of adverse action and that participation shall remain nonpublic if required by the member state's laws. (b) Member states must require ind…

Sec. 1. The state department is the designated state agency to adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 and accept delegation from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to carry out the purposes of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (P.L.100-578) (42 U.S.C. 2…

Sec. 4. (a) As used in this section, "clinical laboratory" means a laboratory that: (1) provides clinical services; (2) holds a federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) certificate of accreditation; and (3) is not owned or operated by a hospital licensed under IC 16-21-…

Sec. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this article commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-35-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993,…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "community benefits" means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing charity care, government sponsored indigent health care, donations, education, government sponsored program services, research, and subsidized health services. The term do…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "government sponsored indigent health care" means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of Medicare, providing health care services to recipients of Medicaid, and other federal, state, or local indigent health care programs, eligibility for which is…

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "nonprofit hospital" means a hospital that is organized as a nonprofit corporation or a charitable trust under Indiana law or the laws of any other state or country and that is: (1) eligible for tax exempt bond financing; or (2) exempt from state …

Sec. 4. A nonprofit hospital shall develop: (1) an organizational mission statement that identifies the hospital's commitment to serving the health care needs of the community; and (2) a community benefits plan defined as an operational plan for serving the community's health car…

Sec. 5. When developing the community benefits plan, the hospital shall consider the health care needs of the community as determined by communitywide needs assessments. As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.17.

Sec. 6. The hospital shall include at least the following elements in the community benefits plan: (1) Mechanisms to evaluate the plan's effectiveness, including a method for soliciting the views of the communities served by the hospital. (2) Measurable objectives to be achieved …

Sec. 7. (a) Each nonprofit hospital shall prepare an annual report of the community benefits plan. The report must include, in addition to the community benefits plan itself, the following background information: (1) The hospital's mission statement. (2) A disclosure of the healt…