Texas § GV.542.0001 - DEFINITIONS

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§ GV.542.0001. DEFINITIONS

DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Advisory committee" means the intellectual and developmental disability system redesign advisory committee established under Section 542.0052 . (2) "Basic attendant service" means a service provided to an individual to assist the individual with an activity of daily living, including an instrumental activity of daily living, because of a physical, cognitive, or behavioral limitation related to the individual's disability or chronic health condition. (3) "Comprehensive long-term services and supports provider" means a provider of long-term services and supports under this chapter that ensures the coordinated, seamless delivery of the full range of services in a recipient's program plan. The term includes: (A) an ICF-IID program provider; and (B) a Medicaid waiver program provider. (4) "Consumer direction model" has the meaning assigned by Section 546.0101 . (5) "Functional need" means the measurement of an individual's services and supports needs, including the individual's intellectual, psychiatric, medical, and physical support needs. (6) "Habilitation service" includes a service provided to an individual to assist the individual with acquiring, retaining, or improving: (A) a skill related to the activities of daily living; and (B) the social and adaptive skills necessary for the individual to live and fully participate in the community. (7) "ICF-IID" means the Medicaid program serving individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability who receive care in intermediate care facilities other than a state supported living center. (8) "ICF-IID program" means a Medicaid program serving individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability who reside in and receive care from: (A) an intermediate care facility licensed under Chapter 252 , Health and Safety Code; or (B) a community-based intermediate care facility operated by a local intellectual and developmental disability authority. (9) "Local intellectual and developmental disability authority" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.002 , Health and Safety Code. (10) "Managed care organization" has the meaning assigned by Section 543A.0001 . (11) "Medicaid waiver program" means only the following programs that are authorized under Section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396n(c)) for the provision of services to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability: (A) the community living assistance and support services (CLASS) waiver program; (B) the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program; (C) the deaf-blind with multiple disabilities (DBMD) waiver program; and (D) the Texas home living (TxHmL) waiver program. (12) "Potentially preventable event" has the meaning assigned by Section 543A.0001 . (13) "Residential service" means a service provided to an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability through a community-based ICF-IID, three- or four-person home or host home setting under the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program, or a group home under the deaf-blind with multiple disabilities (DBMD) waiver program. (14) "State supported living center" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.002 , Health and Safety Code. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611 ), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.

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