AB50,1131,5 (a) Vote 10 percent or more of any class of voting shares or interests of a health care entity.

AB50,1131,6 (b) Direct the actions or policies of the specified entity.

AB50,1131,13 (6) “Health care facility” means an institution that provides health care services or a health care setting, including hospitals and other inpatient facilities, health systems consisting of one or more health care entities that are jointly owned or managed, ambulatory surgical or treatment centers, skilled nursing facilities, residential treatment centers, diagnostic, laboratory, and imaging centers, freestanding emergency facilities, outpatient clinics, and rehabilitation and other therapeutic health settings.

AB50,1131,16 (7) “Health care provider” means any person, corporation, partnership, governmental unit, state institution, medical practice, or other entity that performs or provides health care services to persons in the state.

AB50,1131,19 (8) “Health care services” means services and payments for the care, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, cure, or relief of a medical, dental, or behavioral health condition, illness, injury, or disease, including any of the following:

AB50,1131,22 (a) Inpatient, outpatient, habilitative, rehabilitative, dental, palliative, therapeutic, supportive, home health, or behavioral services provided by a health care entity.

AB50,1131,24 (b) Pharmacy, retail, and specialty, including any drug, device, or medical supply.

AB50,1132,1 (c) Performance of functions to refer, arrange, or coordinate care.

AB50,1132,3 (d) Equipment used such as durable medical equipment, diagnostic, surgical devices, or infusion.

AB50,1132,6 (e) Technology associated with the provision of services or equipment in pars. (a) to (d) above, such as telehealth, electronic health records, software, claims processing, or utilization systems.

AB50,1132,12 (9) “Health care staffing company” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other business entity engaged in the business of providing or procuring, for temporary employment or contracting by a health care facility, any health care personnel, but does not include an individual who independently provides the individual’s own services on a temporary basis to health care facilities as an employee or contractor.

AB50,1132,15 (10) “Licensee” means an individual who is licensed in the state as a physician, a doctor of osteopathy, or a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner who is authorized to diagnose and treat in the applicable clinical setting.

AB50,1132,19 (11) “Management services organization” means any organization or entity that contracts with a health care provider or provider organization to perform management or administrative services relating to, supporting, or facilitating the provision of health care services.

AB50,1132,23 (12) “Medical practice” means a corporate entity or partnership organized for the purpose of practicing medicine and permitted to practice medicine in the state, including partnerships, professional corporations, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships.

AB50,1133,7 (13) “Noncompetition agreement” means a written agreement between a licensee and another person under which the licensee agrees that the licensee, either alone or as an employee, associate, or affiliate of a third person, will not compete with the other person in providing products, processes, or services that are similar to the other person’s products, processes, or services for a period of time or within a specified geographic area after termination of employment or termination of a contract under which the licensee supplied goods to or performed services for the other person.

AB50,1133,12 (14) “Nondisclosure agreement” means a written agreement under the terms of which a licensee must refrain from disclosing partially, fully, directly, or indirectly to any person, other than another party to the written agreement or to a person specified in the agreement as a 3rd-party beneficiary of the agreement, any of the following:

AB50,1133,17 (a) A policy or practice that a party to the agreement required the licensee to use in patient care, other than individually identifiable health information that the licensee may not disclose under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, P.L. 104-191, in effect on the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date].

AB50,1133,20 (b) A policy, practice, or other information about or associated with the licensee’s employment, conditions of employment, or rate or amount of pay or other compensation.

AB50,1134,2 (c) Any other information the licensee possesses or to which the licensee has access by reason of the licensee’s employment by, or provision of services for or on behalf of, a party to the agreement, other than information that is subject to protection under applicable law as a trade secret of, or as otherwise proprietary to, another party to the agreement or to a person specified in the agreement as a third- party beneficiary of the agreement.

AB50,1134,8 (15) “Nondisparagement agreement” means a written agreement under which a licensee must refrain from making to a 3rd party a statement about another party to the agreement or about another person specified in the agreement as a 3rd-party beneficiary of the agreement, the effect of which causes or threatens to cause harm to the other party’s or person’s reputation, business relations, or other economic interests.

AB50,1134,9 (16) “Ownership or investment interest” means any of the following:

AB50,1134,11 (a) Direct or indirect possession of equity in the capital, stock, or profits totaling more than 5 percent of an entity.

AB50,1134,14 (b) Interest held by an investor or group of investors who engages in the raising or returning of capital and who invests, develops, or disposes of specified assets.

AB50,1134,18 (c) Interest held by a pool of funds by investors, including a pool of funds managed or controlled by private limited partnerships, if those investors or the management of that pool or private limited partnership employ investment strategies of any kind to earn a return on that pool of funds.

AB50,1134,22 (17) “Private equity fund” means a publicly traded or nonpublicly traded company that collects capital investments from individuals or entities and purchases a direct or indirect ownership share or controlling interest of a health care entity.

AB50,1135,7 (18) “Provider organization” means any corporation, partnership, business trust, association, or organized group of persons that is in the business of health care delivery or management, whether incorporated or not, that represents one or more health care providers in contracting with insurance carriers for the payments of health care services. “Provider organization” includes physician organizations, physician-hospital organizations, independent practice associations, provider networks, accountable care organizations, management services organizations, and any other organization that contracts with insurance carriers for payment for health care services.

AB50,1135,8 (19) “Significant equity investor” means any of the following:

AB50,1135,10 (a) Any private equity fund with a direct or indirect ownership or investment interest in a health care entity.

AB50,1135,13 (b) Any investor, group of investors, or other entity with a direct or indirect possession of equity in the capital, stock, or profits totaling more than 10 percent of a health care provider or provider organization.