North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 14 - Director, Division of Health Service Regulation › Subchapter C - CERTIFICATE OF NEED REGULATIONS › Section .1600 - CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION EQUIPMENT › Section 14C .1601 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to all rules in this
					 Section:
(1) "Angiography procedures"
				  means procedures performed using cardiac catheterization equipment that are not
				  cardiac catheterization services.
(2) "Approved cardiac catheterization
				  equipment" means cardiac catheterization equipment that was issued a
				  certificate of need but is not being used to provide cardiac catheterization
				  services as of the application deadline for the review period.
(3) "Cardiac catheterization equipment" shall
				  have the same meaning as defined in
				  G.S.
				  131E-176(2f).
(4) "Cardiac catheterization services" shall
				  have the same meaning as defined in
				  G.S.
				  131E-176(2g).
(5) "Diagnostic-equivalent cardiac
				  catheterization procedures" shall have the same meaning as defined in the
				  annual State Medical Facilities Plan in effect as of the first day of the
				  review period.
(6) "Existing
				  cardiac catheterization equipment" means cardiac catheterization equipment that
				  is being used to offer cardiac catheterization services as of the application
				  deadline for the review period.
(7)
				  "Fixed cardiac catheterization equipment" means cardiac catheterization
				  equipment that is not mobile or shared fixed cardiac catheterization
				  equipment.
(8) "Fixed cardiac
				  catheterization equipment service area" shall have the same meaning as defined
				  in the annual State Medical Facilities Plan in effect as of the first day of
				  the review period.
(9) "Host site"
				  means the location where the mobile cardiac catheterization equipment provides
				  cardiac catheterization services.
(10) "Mobile cardiac catherization equipment"
				  means cardiac catheterization equipment that is moved weekly to provide cardiac
				  catheterization services at two or more host sites.
(11) "Mobile cardiac catheterization
				  equipment service area" shall have the same meaning as defined in the annual
				  State Medical Facilities Plan in effect as of the first day of the review
				  period.
(12) "Proposed cardiac
				  catheterization equipment" means the cardiac catheterization equipment proposed
				  in the certificate of need application.
(13) "Shared fixed cardiac catheterization
				  equipment" means fixed cardiac catheterization equipment that is used to
				  perform cardiac catheterization procedures and angiography
				  procedures.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 131E-177(1);
					 131E-183(b);
Eff. January 1, 1987;
Temporary Amendment Eff. September 1, 1993
					 for a period of 180 days or until the permanent rule becomes effective,
					 whichever is sooner;
Amended Eff. November 1, 1996; February 1,
					 1994;
Temporary Amendment Eff. January 1, 1999;
Temporary Eff. January 1, 1999 Expired on October 12, 1999;
Temporary Amendment Eff. January 1, 2000;
Temporary Amendment
					 effective January 1, 2000 amends and replaces a permanent rulemaking originally
					 proposed to be effective August 1, 2000;
Temporary Amendment Eff.
					 January 1, 2001;
Temporary Amendment effective January 1, 2001
					 amends and replaces a permanent rulemaking originally proposed to be effective
					 April 1, 2001;
Amended Eff. August 1, 2002;
Temporary
					 Amendment Eff. February 1, 2006;
Amended Eff. November 1,
					 2006;
Readopted Eff. January 1,
					 2022.