Chapter 65: Public Health

Article 49: Health Care Providers

Statute 65-4914: Public policy relating to provision of health care. It is the declared public policy of the state of Kansas that the provision of health care is essential to the well-being of its citizens as is the achievement of an acceptable quality of health care. Such goals may be achieved by requiring a system which combines a reasonable means to monitor the quality of health care with the provision of a reasonable means to compensate patients for the risks related to receiving health care rendered by health care providers licensed by the state of Kansas.

      History:   L. 1984, ch. 238, § 1; July 1.