53-6-401. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Community-based medicaid services" means those long-term medical, habilitative, rehabilitative, and other services that are available to medicaid-eligible persons in a community setting or in a person's home as a substitute for medicaid services provided in long-term care facilities and that are allowed under the state medicaid plan in order to avoid institutionalization.
     (2) "Department" means the department of public health and human services provided for in 2-15-2201.
     (3) "Long-term care facilities" means facilities that are certified by the department to provide skilled or intermediate nursing care services, including intermediate nursing care services for persons with developmental disabilities.
     (4) "Long-term care medicaid services" means community-based medicaid services and those medicaid services provided in long-term care facilities.
     (5) "Long-term care preadmission screening and resident review" means an evaluation that results in a determination as to whether a person requires the services provided in long-term care facilities and whether community-based medicaid services would be an appropriate substitute for medicaid services that are available in long-term care facilities.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 516, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 711, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 255, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 162, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 458, Ch. 546, L. 1995.