12 Colo. Code Regs. § 2512-2-12.520

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 22, November 25, 2024
Section 12 CCR 2512-2-12.520 - DEFINITIONS

"Applicant" means an individual for whom an application or referral for services has been completed.

"Service Coordination and Skills Training" means a collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates the options and services required to meet individual's needs, using communication and available resources to promote quality, cost effective outcomes.

"Contractor" means an organization or entity that is under contract with the Department to perform intake and eligibility determination services or to provide services to Program participants.

"Program" means the Colorado Brain Injury Program, as defined in Title 26, Article 1, Part 3, C.R.S.

"Program participant" means an individual for whom an application or referral for Program services has been completed, who has been determined to meet all of the Program eligibility criteria, and who has been referred to a contactor to receive Program services or to be placed on the Contractor's wait list for services.

"Protected health information" means any information about an applicant or Program participant that is protected health information as defined in C.F.R 160.103 (2020), the regulations related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The definition of protected health information is hereby incorporated by reference, with no later amendments or editions. Copies of the regulation are available electronically at www.ecfr.gov and also available for review at MINDSOURCE, Colorado Department of Human Services, 1574 Sherman Street, Fourth Floor, Denver, Colorado 80203 during regular business hours.

"Brain Injury" refers to damage to the brain from an internal or external source, including a traumatic brain injury, that occurs post-birth and is noncongenital, nondegenerative, and nonhereditary, resulting in partial or total functional impairment in one or more areas, including but not limited to attention, memory, reasoning, problem solving, speed of processing, decision-making, learning, perception, sensory impairment, speech and language, motor and physical functioning, or psychological behavior.

Documentation of Brain Injury must be based on adequate medical history. A Brain Injury must be of sufficient severity to produce partial or total disability.

"Board" or "Board of Directors" means the Colorado Brain Injury Trust Fund Board created with the State Department of Human Services pursuant to Section 26-1-302(1), C.R.S.

12 CCR 2512-2-12.520

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42 CR 01, January 10, 2019, effective 2/1/2019
44 CR 13, July 10, 2021, effective 8/1/2021