Texas Health and Safety Code 241.401 – Definitions
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 241.401
- United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this subchapter:
(1) “Acute hospital care at home waiver program” means:
(A) the program established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under 42 U.S.C. § 1320b-5 that waives the requirements of 42 C.F.R. Sections 482.23(b) and (b)(1); and
(B) a successor program to the program described by Paragraph (A) that is established by the United States Congress or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
(2) “Hospital at home program” means a program operated by a hospital to provide in a home setting health care services that are considered to be acute hospital care for purposes of the acute hospital care at home waiver program.