Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 101 CMR - EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Title 101 CMR 446.00 - COVID-19 Payment Rates for Certain Community Health Care Providers › Section 446.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
As used in 101 CMR 446.00, terms have the meanings in 101 CMR
				446.02, except as otherwise provided.
Clinical Care Team
. The staff
				necessary to provide I&R Services to guests at an I&R site. The
				clinical care team may include physicians, nurse practitioners, physician
				assistants, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing
				assistants, home health aides, masters of social work, licensed independent
				clinical social workers, and administrative support staff. EOHHS may approve
				other staff types to be part of the clinical care team, including staff with
				different clinical qualifications than those listed herein, as appropriate. The
				make-up of the clinical care team for each I&R community health center will
				be established in the special conditions amendment to each I&R community
				health center's provider contract.
Commonwealth COVID-19 Vaccination
				Plan
. The plan describing the administration of COVID-19
				vaccinations within the Commonwealth, including eligibility criteria and
				phasing, available at
www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-covid-19-vaccination-phases
.
COVID-19 Services
. Services relating
				to the March 10, 2020 Declaration of State of Emergency within the Commonwealth
				due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), for which payment rates are set
				under 101 CMR 446.00.
Eligible Additional Individuals
. As
				determined by the governmental unit or its designee, any
(a) family member of an eligible resident currently residing
				in the eligible resident's household; or
(b) home health worker who provides regular care to an
				eligible resident in the eligible resident's household.
Eligible Provider
. A person,
				partnership, corporation, governmental unit, or other entity that provides
				authorized COVID-19 services and that also meets such conditions of
				participation as have been or may be adopted from time to time by a
				governmental unit purchasing COVID-19 services.
Eligible Resident
. A Massachusetts
				resident determined to be eligible for in-home vaccination services by the
				governmental unit or its designee.
EOHHS
. The Executive Office of Health
				and Human Services established under M.G.L. c. 6A.
Governmental Unit
. The Commonwealth of
				Massachusetts or any of its departments, agencies, boards, commissions, or
				political subdivisions.
Household
. A home or residence within
				the Commonwealth in which at least one eligible resident resides, including
				congregate care facilities and other congregate housing, but excluding any
				facility or unit licensed by DPH as a long-term-care facility or unit pursuant
				to
				105 CMR 150.000:
Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities
.
In-home Vaccination Provider
. An
				eligible provider who provides in-home vaccination services pursuant to a
				contract between the governmental unit and the eligible provider.
In-home Vaccination Services
. COVID-19
				vaccine administration services performed in a household by an in-home
				vaccination provider pursuant to a contract between the governmental unit and
				the in-home vaccination provider.
I&R Community Health Center
. A
				community health center that has agreed to provide services at an I&R site
				through an executed special conditions amendment to its provider
				contract.
I&R Services
. The services that
				the clinical care team at an I&R community health center must provide, as
				provided by the special conditions amendment to the provider contract.
I&R Site
. A location, such as a
				hotel or motel, that separately contracts with EOHHS to provide safe, isolated
				lodging for individuals with a COVID-19 diagnosis.
Other Vaccinable Individuals
.
				Residents of the Commonwealth who are neither eligible residents nor eligible
				additional individuals, but who are otherwise eligible to receive a COVID-19
				vaccination in accordance with the Commonwealth's COVID-19 vaccination
				plan.
Publicly Aided Individual
. A person
				for whose medical and other services a governmental unit is in whole or in part
				liable under a statutory program.
Waste Prevention Vaccinations
.
				COVID-19 vaccinations administered by an in-home vaccination provider to other
				vaccinable individuals in any setting solely to avoid wasting COVID-19 vaccine
				doses that would otherwise spoil.