2023 Texas Statutes › Government Code › Title 4 - Executive Branch › Subtitle I - Health and Human Services › Chapter 534 - System Redesign for Delivery of Medicaid Acute Care Services and Long-Term Services and Supports to Persons With an Intellectual or Developmental Disability › Subchapter A. General Provisions › Section 534.001. Definitions

Text of section effective until April 01, 2025
Sec. 534.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
(1)  "Advisory committee" means the Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee established under Section 534.053.
(2)  "Basic attendant services" means assistance with the activities of daily living, including instrumental activities of daily living, provided to an individual because of a physical, cognitive, or behavioral limitation related to the individual's disability or chronic health condition.
(3)  "Comprehensive long-term services and supports provider" means a provider of long-term services and supports under this chapter that ensures the coordinated, seamless delivery of the full range of services in a recipient's program plan.  The term includes:
(A)  a provider under the ICF-IID program; and
(B)  a provider under a Medicaid waiver program.
(3-a)  "Consumer direction model" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.051.
(4)  "Functional need" means the measurement of an individual's services and supports needs, including the individual's intellectual, psychiatric, medical, and physical support needs.
(5)  "Habilitation services" includes assistance provided to an individual with acquiring, retaining, or improving:
(A)  skills related to the activities of daily living; and
(B)  the social and adaptive skills necessary to enable the individual to live and fully participate in the community.
(6)  "ICF-IID" means the program under Medicaid serving individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability who receive care in intermediate care facilities other than a state supported living center.
(7)  "ICF-IID program" means a program under Medicaid serving individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability who reside in and receive care from:
(A)  intermediate care facilities licensed under Chapter 252, Health and Safety Code; or
(B)  community-based intermediate care facilities operated by local intellectual and developmental disability authorities.
(8)  "Local intellectual and developmental disability authority" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.
(9)  "Managed care organization," "managed care plan," and "potentially preventable event" have the meanings assigned under Section 536.001.
(10)  Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 2.287(17), eff. April 2, 2015.
(11)  "Medicaid waiver program" means only the following programs that are authorized under Section 1915(c) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396n(c)) for the provision of services to persons with an intellectual or developmental disability:
(A)  the community living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver program;
(B)  the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program;
(C)  the deaf-blind with multiple disabilities (DBMD) waiver program; and
(D)  the Texas home living (TxHmL) waiver program.
(11-a)  "Residential services" means services provided to an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability through a community-based ICF-IID, three- or four-person home or host home setting under the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program, or a group home under the deaf-blind with multiple disabilities (DBMD) waiver program.
(12)  "State supported living center" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1310 (S.B. 7), Sec. 1.01, eff. September 1, 2013.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 2.241, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 2.287(17), eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1330 (H.B. 4533), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2019.
Repealed by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 3.01(3), eff. April 1, 2025.