New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XXI - OFFICE OF ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES › Part 825 - Integrated Outpatient Services › Section 825.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
For the purposes of this Part:
(a) "Behavioral health care" means care and
				treatment of mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
(b) "Diagnostic and treatment center" means a
				medical facility as defined in 10 NYCRR section 751.1 or an extension clinic as
				defined in 10 NYCRR 401.1(g).
(c)
				"Governing authority" means the entity that substantially controls the operator
				or provider of services and to which a state licensing agency has issued an
				operating certificate. The governing authority is the body possessing the right
				to appoint and remove directors or officers, to approve bylaws or articles of
				incorporation, to approve strategic or financial plans for a provider or
				service, or to approve operating or capital budgets for a provider of
				services.
(d) "General hospital
				outpatient program" means a distinct part or unit within a general hospital as
				defined by section 2801 (10)  of the Public
				Health Law through which outpatient services, other than hospital-based
				ambulatory surgery services, are provided.
(e) "Host Site" means a provider that is
				licensed or certified by the Department of Health, the Office of Mental Health
				or the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and is approved to
				provide integrated care services at a single outpatient site.
(f) "Integrated care services" means the
				systematic coordination of evidence-based physical and behavioral health care
				in clinics licensed by one or more state licensing agencies in order to promote
				health and better outcomes, particularly for populations at risk.
(g) "Integrated services provider" means a
				provider holding multiple operating certificates or licenses to provide
				outpatient services, who has also been authorized by a commissioner of a state
				licensing agency to deliver identified integrated care services at a specific
				site in accordance with the provisions of this Part.
(h) "Medical director" is a physician who is
				responsible for the medical services provided by the integrated services
				provider, for the overall direction of the medical procedures provided and the
				direct supervision of medical staff in the performance of medical
				services.
(i) "Outpatient services"
				means clinic services provided by a diagnostic and treatment center or general
				hospital outpatient program pursuant to PHL Article 28, a mental health clinic
				licensed pursuant to MHL Article 31, or a substance use disorder clinic
				certified pursuant to MHL Article 32.
(j) "Primary care services" means services
				provided by a physician, nurse practitioner, or midwife acting within his or
				her lawful scope of practice under Title VIII of the Education Law and who is
				practicing in a primary care specialty.
(k) "State licensing agency" means the state
				agency with statutory authority to license or certify a provider of outpatient
				services and designated in accordance with the provisions of this Part with
				responsibility to monitor compliance by an integrated services provider with
				the provisions of this Part. State licensing agency is limited to the
				Department of Health, the Office of Mental Health, or the Office of Alcoholism
				and Substance Abuse Services, as applicable.