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§ 1951. Definitions
As used in this subchapter:
(1) "Assessment" means a tax levied on a health care provider pursuant to this chapter.
(2) "Core home health care services" means those medically-necessary skilled nursing, home health aide, therapeutic, and persona1 care attendant services, provided exclusively in the home by home health agencies. Core home health services do not include private duty nursing, hospice, homemaker or physician services, or services provided under early periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment (EPSDT), traumatic brain injury (TBI), high technology programs, or services provided by a home for the terminally ill as defined in subdivision 7102(10) of this title.
(3) "Director" means the director of the office of Vermont health access.
(4) "Fund" means the state health care resources fund consisting in part of assessments from health care providers under this subchapter.
(5) "Health care provider" means any hospital, nursing home, intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, home health agency, or retail pharmacy.
(6) "Home health agency" means an entity that has received a certificate of need from the state to provide home health services or is certified to provide services pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1395x(o).
(7) "Hospital" means a hospital licensed under chapter 43 of Title 18.
(8) "Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded" ("ICF/MR") means a facility which provides long-term health related care to residents with mental retardation pursuant to subdivision 1902(a)(31) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(31)).
(9) "Mental hospital" or "psychiatric facility" means a hospital as defined in 18 V.S.A. § 1902(1)(B) or (H), but does not include psychiatric units of general hospitals.
(10) "Net operating revenues" means a provider's gross charges less any deductions for bad debts, charity care, contractual allowances, and other payer discounts.
(11) "Nursing home" means a health care facility licensed under chapter 71 of this title.
(12) "Office" means the office of Vermont health access.
(13) "Pharmacy" means a Vermont drug outlet licensed by the Vermont state board of pharmacy pursuant to chapter 36 of Title 26 in which prescription drugs are sold at retail.
(14) "Secretary" means the secretary of the agency of human services. (Added 1991, No. 94, § 1; amended 1991, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1993, No. 56 § 1, eff. June 3, 1993; 1999, No. 49, § 200; 1999, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2005, No. 71, § 283; 2005, No. 215 (Adj. Sess.), § 318.)
