New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 1 - HEALTH GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part 23 - DATA REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GEOGRAPHIC ACCESS DATA SYSTEM › Section 7.1.23.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
In addition to the definitions in the Health Information
				  System Act, Section
				  24-14A-1
				  et seq. NMSA 1978, the following terms have the following meaning for purposes
				  of this rule:
A.
Amount of
				payment of award
means the total dollar amount paid during the reporting
				period to or on behalf of a participant in a program designated by this
				rule.
B.
Behavioral health
				or psychiatric beds (as specified by the facility)
means the licensed
				bed capacity, as specified by the state health facility licensing authority,
				for hospital beds reserved for acute, residential or long-term care to
				emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and
				those admitted on the basis of an authorized health professional's orders and
				approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision
				to persons with chronic mental illnesses, mental disorders, or other chronic or
				severe mental disabilities.
C.
Current license expiration date
means the date on which the
				current license issued by the state health facility licensing authority
				expires.
D.
Current license
				issuance date
means the date on which the current license was issued by
				the state health facility licensing authority.
E.
Current license number
means
				the number assigned and listed on the licensed document of each health facility
				licensed by the state health facility licensing authority.
F.
Date first licensed in New
				Mexico
means the date that the health care professional was initially
				licensed to practice in the stated profession at their current professional
				level in New Mexico.
G.
Date
				of birth
means the date of birth of a licensed health care professional
				or a participant in a state administered program to improve the distribution of
				health professionals.
H.
Date of graduation
means the month and the year that the health care
				professional graduated from the health professional educational
				institution.
I.
Dental
				care
means preventive, restorative and/or emergency services provided by
				a dental health care professional.
J.
Director
means the director
				of the New Mexico health policy commission.
K.
Dually certified beds
means
				beds certified by the federal health care finance administration (HCFA) for
				reimbursement under both medicaid and medicare programs.
L.
Emergency care
means
				provision of emergency services, either on site or through stabilization and
				transport on a regular basis, to meet life, limb or function-threatening
				conditions.
M.
Facility
				ID
means the identification number assigned for internal control to a
				health facility licensed by the state health facility licensing
				authority.
N.
Facility
				type
means the type of a facility licensed by the state health facility
				licensing authority or a federal agency, including inpatient, community health
				or public health, laboratory, etc., as designated by the state health facility
				licensing authority.
O.
Family planning services
means provision of contraceptive/birth control
				and/or infertility treatment, including counseling and education by health
				professionals.
P.
Full time
				equivalent
means the average portion of the amount of time considered
				normal for working during a week. In general, this means the average number of
				hours worked weekly by an individual divided by forty; however, the value
				should not exceed one, regardless of average hours worked.
Q.
Gender
means the sex of the
				licensed health care professional.
R.
Geographic access data system
				(GADS)
means the data system developed pursuant to the Health
				Information Systems Act, Section
				24-14A-1
				et seq. NMSA 1978, to provide data and information to assist the commission,
				the legislature and other agencies and organizations in planning, formulating
				policy, administering programs and allocating resources to improve geographic
				access to health services.
S.
Geographic access data system (GADS) data sources
means state
				health professional and facility licensing agencies and boards; licensed
				outpatient medical facilities; and state entities administering programs to
				improve the distribution of health professionals.
T.
Gynecological services
means
				the provision of diagnostic and treatment services relating to the female
				reproductive system, including annual pelvic exams and pap smears, follow-up
				and outpatient treatment of abnormal findings, and diagnosis and treatment of
				sexually transmitted diseases, but not including family planning
				services.
U.
Health
				care
means any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain,
				diagnose or otherwise affect an individual's physical or mental
				condition.
V.
Health care
				professional
means any individual licensed, certified or otherwise
				authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the practice of a
				profession.
W.
License
				employment classification
means the employment status of a person
				licensed by the New Mexico state board of nursing, classified as either:
(1) employed full-time;
(2) employed part-time;
(3) unemployed.