New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XIII - Office of Mental Health › Part 598 - Integrated Outpatient Services › Section 598.4 - 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 section
				401.1(g).
(c)
Governing
				authority
means the entity that substantially controls the operator or
				provider of services 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 and other
				organizational documents, to approve strategic or financial plans for a
				provider of services, 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 single
				outpatient site at which a provider who is licensed or certified by the
				Department of Health, the Office of Mental Health, or the Office of Alcoholism
				and Substance Abuse Services is approved to provide integrated care services
				pursuant to this Part.
(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
				licensed 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 primary care.
(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.