Defined Health Care Providers
The Health Care Provider Insurance Availability Act (the Act) defines the health care providers who are subject to the Act in K.S.A. 40-3401(f).
The list of defined health care providers includes:
- Medical Doctors and Doctors of Osteopathy who are licensed or hold a temporary permit issued by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts,
- Persons engaged in a postgraduate training program that is approved by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts,
- Physician Assistants,
- Chiropractors,
- Podiatrists,
- Dentists who have been certified by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts to administer anesthetics,
- Nurse Anesthetists,
- Nurse Midwives,
- Medical Care Facilities (special hospitals, general hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and recuperation centers),
- Health Care Facilities (nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and residential health care facilities),
- Mental Health Clinics or Centers,
- Psychiatric Hospitals (selected facilities only),
- Kansas Professional Corporations or Partnerships created by defined health care providers,
- Kansas Limited Liability Companies organized for the purpose of rendering professional services by its members who are defined health care providers,
- Kansas not-for-profit corporations organized for the purpose of rendering professional services by persons who are defined health care providers, and
- A nonprofit corporation organized to administer the graduate medical education programs of community hospitals or medical care facilities affiliated with the University of Kansas School of Medicine