2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 25.5 - HEALTH CARE POLICY AND FINANCING (§§ 25.5-1-101 — 25.5-11-101) › COLORADO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ACT (§§ 25.5-4-101 — 25.5-6-2001) › Article 6 - COLORADO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ACT - LONG-TERM CARE (§§ 25.5-6-101 — 25.5-6-2001) › Part 3 - HOME- AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICESFOR THE ELDERLY, BLIND, AND DISABLED (§§ 25.5-6-301 — 25.5-6-314) › Section 25.5-6-303 - [Effective 7/1/2025] Definitions

As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Adult day care facility" means a facility which meets all applicable state and federal requirements and is certified by the state to provide adult day care services to eligible persons.
(2)
"Adult day care services" means health and social services provided on a less than twenty-four-hour basis to eligible persons in state-certified adult day care facilities.
(3)
"Alternative care facility" means a residential facility which provides alternative care services and protective oversight to eligible persons, which meets applicable state and federal requirements, and which is state-certified.
(4)
"Alternative care services" means a package of personal care and homemaker services provided in a state-certified alternative care facility.
(5)
(a)
"Case management agency" means agencies providing services on and before July 1, 1995, for home- and community-based programs for the elderly, blind, and disabled shall be terminated July 1, 1995, and case management functions shall thereafter be performed in accordance with this article 6.
(b)
"Case management agency" has the same meaning as set forth in section 25.5-6-1702(2).
(6)
"Case management services" has the same meeting as set forth in section 25.5-6-1702(3).
(7)
"Case plan" means a coordinated plan for the provision of long-term-care services in a setting other than a nursing home, developed and managed by a case management agency, in coordination with the Member, the member's family or guardian, the member's physician, and other providers of care.
(8)
[Repealed by 2023 amendment.]
(9)
[Repealed by 2023 amendment.]
(10)
[Repealed by 2023 amendment.]
(11)
[Repealed by 2023 amendment.]
(12)
"Home modification provider" means an entity that meets applicable state, federal, and local requirements and is certified to provide home modification services.
(13)
"Home modification services" means home installations or adaptations that are related to the eligible person's physical impairment and enable the person to remain at home.
(14)
"Medications administration" means the administration or monitoring of medications provided in a manner consistent with part 3 of article
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(15)
"Nonmedical transportation provider" means an entity that meets applicable state and federal requirements and is certified to provide nonmedical transportation services.
(16)
"Nonmedical transportation services" means transportation of eligible persons to services such as, but not limited to, adult day care services, which enable the person to remain at home.
(17)
[Repealed by 2023 amendment.]
(18)
[Repealed by 2023 amendment.]
(19)
"Respite care provider" means a facility or agency that meets all applicable state and federal requirements and is state-certified to provide respite care services.
(20)
"Respite care services" means services of a short-term nature provided to a Member, in the home or in a facility approved by the state department, in order to temporarily relieve the family or other home providers from the care and maintenance of the member, including room and board, maintenance, personal care, and other related services.
(21)
Repealed.
Amended by 2024 Ch. 152,§ 79, eff. 8/7/2024.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 270,§ 3, eff. 7/1/2025.
Amended by 2021 Ch. 83, § 30, eff. 7/1/2024.
Amended by 2021 Ch. 78, § 1, eff. 4/30/2021.
Amended by 2018 Ch. 62, § 7, eff. 8/8/2018.
Amended by 2018 Ch. 183, § 2, eff. 7/1/2018.
Amended by 2016 Ch. 54, § 4, eff. 7/1/2016.
Amended by 2015 Ch. 139, § 4, eff. 7/1/2015.
L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1938, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2015: (21) amended, (SB 15-240), ch. 423, p. 423, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2016: (21) amended, (SB 16 -093), ch. 132, p. 132, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2018: IP amended and (21) repealed, (HB 18-1326), ch. 1239, p. 1239, § 2, effective July 1; IP and (5)(a) amended, (SB 18-093), ch. 610, p. 610, § 7, effective August 8. L. 2021: (9) amended, (SB 21 -210), ch. 303, p. 303, § 1, effective April 30; (5), (6), and (7) amended, (HB 21 -1187), ch. 333, p. 333, § 30, effective 7/1/2024.
(1) This section is similar to former § 26-4-603 as it existed prior to 2006.
(2) The introductory portion to this section was amended in HB 18-1326. Those amendments were superseded by the amendment of the introductory portion to this section in SB 18-093, effective August 8, 2018.
2024 Ch. 152, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
2021 Ch. 83, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.
(1) For additional definitions applicable to this part 3, see § 25.5-4-103. (2) For the legislative declaration in SB 18-093, see section 1 of chapter 62, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.