Arizona Administrative Code › Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES - HEALTH CARE INSTITUTION FACILITY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WORKFORCE DATA › Article 3 - RATES AND CHARGES SCHEDULES › Section R9-11-301 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In this Article, unless otherwise specified:
1. "Adolescent" means an individual the
				hospital designates as an adolescent based on the hospital's
				criteria.
2. "Adult" means the same
				as in A.A.C.
				R9-10-201.
3. "Behavioral health service" means the same
				as in A.R.S. §
									36-401.
4. "Blood bank cross match" means a
				laboratory analysis, performed by a facility that stores and preserves donated
				blood, to test the compatibility of a quantity of blood donated by one
				individual with another individual who is the intended recipient of the
				blood.
5. "Complete blood count
				with differential" means enumerating the number of red blood cells, platelets,
				and white blood cells in a sample of an individual's blood, and including in
				the enumeration of white blood cells the number of each type of white blood
				cell.
6. "Contrast medium" means a
				substance opaque to x-rays, radio waves, or electromagnetic radiation that
				enhances an image of internal body structures.
7. "CT" means Computed Tomography, a
				diagnostic procedure in which x-ray measurements from many angles are used to
				provide images of internal body structures.
8. "Current rates and charges information"
				means the most recent rates and charges schedule for a health care institution
				on file with the Department, and all documents changing the most recent rates
				and charges schedule.
9. "Drug"
				means the same as in A.R.S. §
									32-1901.
10. "EEG" means electroencephalogram, a
				diagnostic procedure used to measure the electrical activity of the
				brain.
11. "EKG" means
				electrocardiogram, a diagnostic procedure used to measure the electrical
				activity of the heart.
12.
				"Facility" means a building and associated personnel and equipment that perform
				a particular service or activity.
13. "Formulary" means a list of drugs that
				are available to a patient through a hospital.
14. "Home health agency" means the same as in
				A.R.S. §
									36-151.
15. "Home health agency administrator" means
				the chief administrative officer for a home health agency.
16. "Hospital department" means a subdivision
				of a hospital providing administrative oversight for one or more charge
				sources.
17. "Implementation date"
				means the month, day, and year a health care institution intends to begin using
				specific rates and charges when billing a patient or resident.
18. "Intensive care bed" means an available
				bed used to provide intensive care services, as defined in A.A.C.
				R9-10-201, to a
				patient.
19. "IVP" means
				intravenous pyelography, a diagnostic procedure that uses an injection of a
				contrast medium into a vein and x-rays to provide images of the kidneys,
				ureters, bladder, and urethra.
20.
				"Labor and delivery" means services provided to a woman related to
				childbirth.
21. "Lithotripsy" means
				a procedure that uses sound waves to break up hardened deposits of mineral
				salts inside the human body.
22.
				"Mark-up" means the difference between the dollar amount a hospital pays for a
				drug, commodity, or service and the charge billed to a patient.
23. "MRI" means Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a
				diagnostic procedure that uses a magnetic field and radio waves to provide
				images of internal body structures.
24. "Neonate" means the same as in A.A.C.
				R9-10-201.
25. "Nursery bed" means
				an available bed used to provide hospital services to a neonate.
26. "Outpatient treatment center" means the
				same as in A.A.C.
				R9-10-101.
27. "Outpatient treatment center
				administrator" means the chief administrative officer for an outpatient
				treatment center.
28. "Overview
				form" means a document:
a. Submitted by a
				hospital to the Department as part of a rates and charges schedule or a change
				to the hospital's current rates and charges information, and
b. That contains the information required in
				R9-11-302(B)(2) for the hospital.