2018 Mississippi Code
Title 41 - Public Health
Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records
Reimbursement for Trauma Care Service
§ 41-9-51. Hospitals authorized to charge patient for reasonable cost of activating trauma care services under certain circumstances; reimbursement by health-care insurer.

Universal Citation:
MS Code § 41-9-51 (2018)
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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.

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