Okla. Stat. tit. 51, § 51-152.2

for medically indigent persons - Rules - Claims not to affect

insurance rates.

A. 1. The State Department of Health, or a city-county health

department, may enter into agreements with charitable health care

providers in which the provider stipulates to the State Department

of Health, or a city-county health department, that when the

provider renders professional services to a medically indigent

person in a free clinic as provided in Section 32 of Title 76 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, or when a patient is referred from a free clinic

to another charitable health care provider for medical services,

such services will be provided gratuitously;

2. The State Department of Health shall adopt rules which

specify the conditions for termination of any such agreement, and

the rules shall be made a part of the agreement. A city-county

health department shall utilize the same rules as adopted by the

State Department of Health for administration of the provisions of

this section; and

3. A charitable health care provider, for purposes of any claim

for damages arising as a result of rendering professional services

to a medically indigent person, which professional services were

rendered gratuitously in a free clinic as provided in Section 32 of

Title 76 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or when a patient is referred

from a free clinic to another charitable health care provider for

medical services, at a time when an agreement entered into by the

charitable health care provider with the State Department of Health,

or a city-county health department, pursuant to this section was in

effect, shall be considered an employee of the state under The

Governmental Tort Claims Act.

B. The State Department of Health shall adopt rules on

eligibility criteria for determining whether a person qualifies as a

medically indigent person. A city-county health department shall

utilize the same rules as adopted by the State Department of Health

for administration of the provisions of this section.

C. Any claim arising from the rendering of or failure to render

professional services by a charitable health care provider brought

pursuant to The Governmental Tort Claims Act shall not be considered

by an insurance company in determining the rate charged for any

professional liability insurance policy for health care providers

nor whether to cancel any such policy.

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