Conn. Agencies Regs. § 17b-262-830

Current through December 27, 2024

Section 17b-262-830 - Definitions

As used in section 17b-262-829 to section 17b-262-848, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:

(1) "Advanced practice registered nurse" or "APRN" means an advanced practice registered nurse as defined in section 20-87a of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(2) "Applied income" means the amount of income that each client receiving hospice care is expected to pay each month toward the cost of care, calculated according to the department's Uniform Policy Manual, section 5045.20;

(3) "Attending physician" means a physician who is identified by the client at the time he or she elected to receive hospice care as having the most significant role in the determination and delivery of the individual's medical care;

(4) "Bereavement counseling" means emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual support and services provided before and after the client's death to the client and the client's family to assist with issues related to grief, loss and adjustment;

(5) "Client" means a person eligible for goods or services under Medicaid;

(6) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Social Services or his or her designee;

(7) "Concurrent" means in the same time period covered by the care plan;

(8) "Counseling" means services, including dietary counseling, provided for the purpose of helping the client and caregivers to adjust to the client's approaching death;

(9) "Date of terminal diagnosis" means the date on which a physician first diagnoses the client as terminally ill;

(10) "Department" means the Department of Social Services or its agent;

(11) "Election period" means one of three or more periods of care a client may choose to receive the hospice benefit. The periods consist of an initial 90-day period, a subsequent 90 day period and an unlimited number of subsequent 60-day periods;

(12) "Home" means the client's place of residence, including, but not limited to, a boarding home, residential care home or community living arrangement. "Home" does not include facilities such as hospitals, nursing facilities, chronic disease hospitals, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICF/MR) or other facilities that are paid an all-inclusive rate directly by Medicaid for the care of the client;

(13) "Home health aide" means an individual who has completed the homemaker-home health aide services training and competency evaluation program in accordance with Sec.19-13-D69 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;

(14) "Home health care agency" means "home health care agency" as defined in section 19a-490 of the Connecticut General Statutes and licensed pursuant to sections 19-13-D66 to 19-13-D79, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;

(15) "Hospice" means an agency that is primarily engaged in providing care to terminally ill individuals and meets the requirements of section 19-13-D72(b)(2) of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. The hospice model of care is based on a coordinated program of home and inpatient care, employing an interdisciplinary team to meet the special needs of terminally ill individuals;

(16) "Hospice aide and homemaker" means a "hospice aide and homemaker" as defined in 42 CFR 418.76;

(17) "Hospital" means "general hospital" as defined in section 19-13-D1(b)(1) of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;

(18) "Interdisciplinary team" means a group of hospice personnel to include, but not be limited to, a physician, a registered nurse, a pharmacist, a social worker and a counselor that is responsible for providing services to meet the physical, psychosocial, spiritual and emotional needs of a terminally ill client or family members, as delineated in a specific plan of care. The interdisciplinary team is responsible for participating in the establishment of a plan of care for each client, supervising hospice services and reviewing and updating the plan of care as necessary;

(19) "Intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded" or "ICF/MR" means a residential facility for persons with mental retardation licensed pursuant to section 17a-227 of the Connecticut General Statutes and certified to participate in Medicaid as an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded pursuant to 42 CFR 442.101, as amended from time to time;

(20) "Legal representative" means an individual who has been authorized under Connecticut state law to direct medical care or to elect or revoke the election of hospice care on behalf of a terminally ill individual who is mentally or physically incapacitated;

(21) "Licensed practical nurse" or "LPN" means "licensed practical nurse" as defined in section 20-87a of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(22) "Medicaid" means the program operated by the department pursuant to section 17b-260 of the Connecticut General Statutes and authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as amended from time to time;

(23) "Medical appropriateness" or "medically appropriate" means health care that is provided in a timely manner and meets professionally recognized standards of acceptable medical care; is delivered in the appropriate setting; and is the least costly of multiple, equally-effective alternative treatments or diagnostic modalities;

(24) "Medical necessity" or "medically necessary" means health care provided to correct or diminish the adverse effects of a medical condition or mental illness; to assist an individual in attaining or maintaining an optimal level of health; to diagnose a condition; to prevent a medical condition from occurring; or to alleviate suffering through the palliation of symptoms at the end of life;

(25) "Medical record" means "medical record" as defined in section 19a-14-40 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;

(26) "Nursing care" means the services provided by a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse;

(27) "Nursing facility" means "nursing facility" as defined in 42 USC 1396r(a), as amended from time to time, and licensed pursuant to section 19-13-D8t of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;

(28) "Occupational therapy" means the services provided by an occupational therapist or an occupational therapy assistant as set forth in section 20-74a of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(29) "Palliative care" means care that addresses physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual needs and facilitating patient autonomy, access to information and choice;

(30) "Physical therapy" means the services provided by a physical therapist or a physical therapy assistant as set forth in section 20-66 of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(31) "Physician" means a physician or surgeon licensed pursuant to section 20-10 or 20-12, inclusive, of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(32) "Plan of care" means a comprehensive assessment of the client's needs that identifies the types and frequency of services necessary to manage the client's discomfort and relieve the symptoms of the terminal illness as well as to identify any services necessary to meet the needs of the family that meet the requirements of 42 CFR 418.54;

(33) "Prior authorization" or "PA" means the approval for the provision of a service or delivery of goods from the department before the provider actually provides the service or delivers the goods;

(34) "Provider" means a hospice that is certified by Medicare as a hospice, is licensed by the Connecticut Department of Public Health as a hospice and is enrolled with Medicaid;

(35) "Registered nurse" means "registered nurse" as defined in section 20-87a of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(36) "Social worker" means an individual licensed pursuant to section 20-195n of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(37) "Speech therapy" or "speech pathology" means the services provided by a speech pathologist as set forth in section 20-408 of the Connecticut General Statutes; and

(38) "Terminally ill" means a condition in which the patient has a medical prognosis of a life expectancy of six months or less if the illness runs its normal course.

Conn. Agencies Regs. § 17b-262-830

Adopted effective July 7, 2009