Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 40-18 – Long-Term Home Health Care – Alternative to Placement in Skilled Nursing or Intermediate Care Facility
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| § 40-18-1 | Purpose |
| § 40-18-2 | Definitions |
| § 40-18-3 | Patient assessment and provision of services |
| § 40-18-4 | Payment for long-term home healthcare programs |
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 40-18 - Long-Term Home Health Care - Alternative to Placement in Skilled Nursing or Intermediate Care Facility
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Certified home health: means a home-care services agency that is licensed by the state and is qualified to participate as a home health agency under the provisions of Titles XVII and XIX of the federal Social Security Act, Rhode Island General Laws 40-18-2
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Director: means the director of the department of human services. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-18-2
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Government funds: means funds provided under the provisions of chapter 8 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-18-2
- Home-care services: means those services provided by: (i) a Medicare/Medicaid certified and state-licensed home health agency; and (ii) a state-licensed home health aide/homemaker agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-18-2
- Hospital: means a hospital as defined in chapter 17 of Title 23. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-18-2
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8