Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 130 CMR - DIVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › Title 130 CMR 410.000 - Outpatient hospital services › Section 410.474 - Mental Health Services: Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
The following terms used in
				130 CMR
				410.471 through
				410.479
				will have the meanings given in 130 CMR 410.474 unless the context clearly
				requires a different meaning. When provided in a hospital outpatient
				department, services that are defined below must conform to the definitions
				given.
Case Consultation
- environmental
				intervention for medical management purposes on a psychiatric patient's behalf
				with agencies, employers, or institutions which may include:
(1) the preparation of reports of the patient's psychiatric
				status, history, treatment, or progress (other than for legal purposes) for
				other physicians, agencies, or insurance carriers.
(2) one for whom evaluation and assessment have been requested
				by another agency or program involved in treatment or management of the member.
Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths
				(CANS)
- a tool that provides a standardized way to organize
				information gathered during behavioral-health clinical assessments. A
				Massachusetts version of the tool has been developed and is intended to be used
				as a treatment tool for behavioral-health providers serving MassHealth members
				younger than 21 years of age.
Crisis Intervention/Emergency Services
- immediate mental health evaluation, diagnosis, hospital prescreening,
				treatment, and arrangements for further care and assistance as required,
				provided during all hours to clients showing sudden, incapacitating emotional
				stress.
Diagnostic Services
- the examination
				and determination of a patient's physical, psychological, social, economic,
				educational, and vocational assets and disabilities for the purpose of
				designing a treatment plan.
Family Consultation
- interpretation
				or explanation of results of psychiatric, other medical examinations and
				procedures, or other accumulated data to family or other responsible persons,
				or advising them how to assist the patient.
Family Couple Therapy
- the treatment
				of more than one member of a family simultaneously in the same session.
Group Therapy
- the psychotherapeutic
				application of psychotherapeutic or counseling techniques to a group of
				persons, most of whom are not related by blood, marriage, or legal
				guardianship.
Home Visit
- crisis intervention,
				individual, group, or family therapy, and medication provided in the member's
				residence (excluding a medical institution), when the member is unable to be
				served at the hospital outpatient department.
Individual Therapy
- therapeutic
				services provided to an individual.
Medication Visit
- a member visit
				specifically for prescription, review, and monitoring of medication by a
				psychiatrist or licensed clinician with prescriptive authority or for the
				administration of prescribed intramuscular medication by a qualified
				clinician.
Psychological Testing
- the use of
				standardized test instruments to evaluate aspects of an individual's
				functioning, including aptitudes, educational achievements, cognitive
				processes, emotional conflicts, and type and degree of psychopathology, subject
				to the limitations of
				130 CMR
				410.479(E).