Rural health plan definition

Rural health plan means a plan approved by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services that describes how the department will implement and administer parts of the federal medicare rural hospital flexibility program−−−critical access hos- pitals−−−under 42 USC 1395i−−−4.
Rural health plan means a plan approved by the federal health care financing administration that describes how the department will implement and administer the federal medicare rural hospital flexibility program—critical access hospitals−−un- der 42 USC 1395i−−4.

Related to Rural health plan

  • Rural health clinic means a rural health clinic as defined under section 1861 of part C of title XVIII of the social security act, chapter 531, 49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. 1395x, and certified to participate in medicaid and medicare.

  • Health plan or "health benefit plan" means any policy,

  • Group health plan means an employee welfare benefit plan as defined in section 3(1) of subtitle A of title I of the employee retirement income security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406, 29 USC 1002, to the extent that the plan provides medical care, including items and services paid for as medical care to employees or their dependents as defined under the terms of the plan directly or through insurance, reimbursement, or otherwise.

  • Home health agency means a person certified by medicare whose business is to provide to individuals in their places of residence other than in a hospital, nursing home, or county medical care facility 1 or more of the following services: nursing services, therapeutic services, social work services, homemaker services, home health aide services, or other related services.

  • CMS means the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.