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2020 Indiana Code
Title 12. Human Services
Article 17.6. Children's Health Insurance Program
Chapter 1. Definitions
12-17.6-1-2.6. "Emergency"
Universal Citation: IN Code § 12-17.6-1-2.6 (2020)
Sec. 2.6. "Emergency" means a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of such severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected by a prudent lay person who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine to:
(1) place an individual's health in serious jeopardy;
(2) result in serious impairment to the individual's bodily functions; or
(3) result in serious dysfunction of a bodily organ or part of the individual.
As added by P.L.95-2000, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.223-2001, SEC.12 and P.L.283-2001, SEC.32.
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