“Health facility” defined. “Health facility” means a facility in or through which health services are provided, except for the office of a practitioner used solely to provide routine services for health to his patients. The term includes any parent, affiliate, subsidiary or partner of such a facility and any other entity which has a primary purpose of providing a benefit to such a facility. For the purposes of this section, “office of a practitioner used solely to provide routine services for health to his patients” does not include a facility which is or will be qualified to receive reimbursement, other than for the services of a practitioner, as a health facility from any public agency.
Last modified: February 26, 2006