Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 51115.1 - Organized Outpatient Clinic Services

(a) "Organized Outpatient Clinic Services" means preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services that are:

(1) Provided to outpatients;

(2) Provided by a facility that is not part of a hospital but is organized and operated to provide medical care to outpatients; and

(3) Except in the case of certified nurse-midwife services, furnished by or under the direction of a physician or dentist.

(b) A clinic may not provide patients with room and board and professional services on a continuous 24-hour-a-day basis.

(c) Eligibility for clinic services is limited to those patients:

(1) Who for the purpose of receiving necessary health care go or are brought to a clinic;

(2) Who receive services in the clinic;

(3) Who within a 24-hour period leave the clinic site at which the services are provided.

Notes

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 51115.1

Note: Authority cited: Sections 14100.1, 14105 and 14124.5, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections 14000, 14124.5 and 14132, Welfare and Institutions Code; 42 CFR 440.90; and 42 CFR 440.2. (Section filed 9-10-86, operative 10-10-86; Register 86, No. 37)