7 AAC 43.1110. Definitions

In 7 AAC 43.1000 - 7 AAC 43.1110, unless the context requires otherwise,

(1) "acute care hospital" has the meaning given "general acute care hospital" in 7 AAC 12.990;

(2) "administrative and general costs" means those expenses that are common to the overall operation of a provider providing home and community-based waiver services and that are not directly assignable to or borne by a specific program or recipient of a home and community-based waiver service;

(3) "applicant" means an individual who has applied for home and community-based waiver services but has not yet been determined eligible for those services;

(4) "care coordination agency provider" means a provider that the department has enrolled under 7 AAC 43.1090 to provide care coordination services under 7 AAC 43.1041;

(5) "contingency funds" means funds that have been accumulated but not expended;

(6) "escort" means an individual who accompanies a recipient to or from a service using a transportation provider enrolled under 7 AAC 43.1090;

(7) "habilitation services" means services that help recipients acquire, retain, or improve skills related to activities of daily living and self-help, social, and adaptive skills necessary to enable the recipient to reside in a non-institutional setting that is provided in a recipient's home, a shared care environment, an assisted living home licensed under AS 47.33, or a foster home licensed under AS 47.35;

(8) "home and community-based services provider" means a provider that the department has enrolled under 7 AAC 43.1090 to provide one or more home and community-based waiver services;

(9) "immediate family" includes the parents or minor siblings of a recipient under age 18 and the spouse of a recipient;

(10) "nursing facility" means a facility certified under 7 AAC 43.170 - 7 AAC 43.280 to provide services as a skilled nursing facility (SNF) or as an intermediate care facility (ICF);

(11) "physiatrist" means a physician who specializes in that branch of medicine using physical therapy, physical agents, such as light, heat, water, and electricity, and mechanical apparatus, in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of bodily disorders known as physiatrics;

(12) "recipient" means an individual who has been determined eligible for home and community-based waiver services under 7 AAC 43.1010;

(13) "recipient category" means a category listed in 7 AAC 43.1010(d)(1);

(14) "recipient's representative" means a parent, guardian, or other individual with legal authority to act on the recipient's behalf;

(15) "residential supported living services provider" means a provider that the department has enrolled under 7 AAC 43.1090 to provide residential supported living services under 7 AAC 43.1044;

(16) "waiver year" means the year in effect in a multiple-year waiver period approved under 42 U.S.C. 1396n(c) that begins July 1 and ends June 30.

History: Eff. 12/19/93, Register 128; am 3/3/2001, Register 157; am 5/15/2004, Register 170

Authority: AS 47.05.010

AS 47.07.030

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