For purposes of the Medical Debt Relief Act: (1) Bad debt expense means the cost of care for which a health care provider expected payment from the patient or a third-party payor, but which the health care provider subsequently determines to be uncollectible; (2) Eligible resident means an individual eligible for relief who: (a) Is a resident of the State of Nebraska; and (b) Has a household income at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines or has medical debt equal to five percent or more of the individual's household income; (3) Health care provider means: (a) A facility licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act; and (b) A health care professional licensed under the Uniform Credentialing Act; (4) Medical debt means an obligation to pay money arising from the receipt of health care services; (5) Medical debt relief means the discharge of a patient's medical debt; (6) Medical debt relief coordinator means a person, company, partnership, or other entity that is able to discharge medical debt of an eligible resident in a manner that does not result in taxable income for the eligible resident; and (7) Program means the Medical Debt Relief Program established in section 45-1303.
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