(2) A kidney disease treatment center, including kidney
disease treatment centers operated by an agency of State or
local government.
"Major ambulatory service." Surgical or medical procedures,
including diagnostic and therapeutic radiological procedures,
commonly performed in hospitals or ambulatory service
facilities, which are not of a type commonly performed, or which
cannot be safely performed, in physicians' offices and which
require special facilities such as operating rooms or suites or
special equipment such as fluoroscopic equipment or computed
tomographic scanners, or a postprocedure recovery room or short-
term convalescent room.
"Medical procedure incidence variations." The variation in
the incidence in the population of specific medical, surgical
and radiological procedures in any given year, expressed as a
deviation from the norm, as these terms are defined in the
classical statistical definition of "variation," "incidence,"
"deviation" and "norm."
"Payment." The payments that providers actually accept for
their services, exclusive of charity care, rather than the
charges they bill.
"Payor." Any person or entity, including, but not limited
to, health care insurers and purchasers, that make direct
payments to providers for covered services.
"Physician." An individual licensed under the laws of this
Commonwealth to practice medicine and surgery within the scope
of the act of October 5, 1978 (P.L.1109, No.261), known as the
Osteopathic Medical Practice Act, or the act of December 20,
1985 (P.L.457, No.112), known as the Medical Practice Act of
1985.
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