Section 41-9-51 - Hospitals authorized to charge patient for reasonable cost of activating trauma care services under certain circumstances; reimbursement by health-care insurer

Any hospital that reasonably activates a trauma care team in response to a request for trauma care services may charge the patient for the reasonable cost of activating those services and shall be reimbursed for those services by the health care insurer by assignment from the patient or from the patient. That cost shall be reimbursed regardless of whether services were actually rendered to the patient, and those trauma care services shall be deemed as a matter of law to have been medical services provided to the patient. Laws, 2008, ch. 549, § 8; reenacted without change, Laws, 2011, ch. 545, § 1, eff. 7/1/2011.