Indiana Code Title 16. Health § 16-18-2-52.5

Sec. 52.5. (a) “Charity care”, for purposes of IC 16-21-6, IC 16-21-9, and IC 16-40-6, means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing, funding, or otherwise financially supporting health care services:

(b) As used in this section, “financially indigent” means an uninsured or underinsured person who is accepted for care with no obligation or a discounted obligation to pay for the services rendered based on the hospital's financial criteria and procedure used to determine if a patient is eligible for charity care.  The criteria and procedure must include income levels and means testing indexed to the federal poverty guidelines.  A hospital may determine that a person is financially or medically indigent under the hospital's eligibility system after health care services are provided.

(c) As used in this section, “medically indigent” means a person whose medical or hospital bills after payment by third party payors exceed a specified percentage of the patient's annual gross income as determined in accordance with the hospital's eligibility system, and who is financially unable to pay the remaining bill.