Chapter 1 - GENERAL DEFINITIONS
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings:
1. Agreement: means a written document
executed between an ESRD Facility and another facility in which the other
facility agrees to assume responsibility for furnishing specified services to
patients and for obtaining reimbursement for those services.
2. Arrangement: means a written document
executed between an ESRD Facility and another facility in which the other
facility agrees to furnish specified services to patients, but the ESRD
Facility retains responsibility for those services and for obtaining
reimbursement for them.
3. Deeming:
means a Medicare certified End Stage Renal Disease Unit/Facility is deemed to
meet the State licensure requirements, if it meets all Federal certification
requirements.
4. Department: means
the Maine Department of Human Services.
5. Dialysis: means a process by which
dissolved substances are removed from a patient's body by diffusion from one
fluid compartment to another across a semipermeable membrane. The two (2) types
of dialysis that are in common use are hemodialysis and peritoneal
dialysis.
6. End-Stage Renal
Disease or ESRD: means that stage of renal impairment that appears irreversible
and permanent and requires a regular course of dialysis or kidney
transplantation to maintain life.
7. ESRD Facility: includes a renal
transplantation center, a renal dialysis center or a renal dialysis
facility.
8. Renal Transplantation
Center: means a hospital unit that is approved to furnish directly
transplantation and other medical and surgical specialty services required for
the care of ESRD transplant patients, including inpatient dialysis furnished
directly or under arrangement. A renal transplantation center may also be a
renal dialysis center.
9. Renal
Dialysis Center: means a hospital unit that is approved to furnish the full
spectrum of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services required for
the care of ESRD dialysis patients, including inpatient dialysis furnished
directly or under arrangement. A hospital need not provide renal
transplantation to qualify as a renal dialysis center.
10. Renal Dialysis Facility: means a unit
that is approved to furnish dialysis services directly to ESRD patients. "Renal
Dialysis Facility" includes a self-dialysis unit or a special-purpose renal
dialysis facility.
11.
Self-Dialysis Unit: means a unit that is part of an approved renal
transplantation center, renal dialysis center or renal dialysis facility and
furnishes self-dialysis services.
12. Special-Purpose Renal Dialysis Facility:
means a renal dialysis facility that is approved to furnish dialysis at special
locations on a short-term basis to a group of dialysis patients otherwise
unable to obtain treatment in the geographical area. The special locations must
be either special rehabilitative locations, including vacation locations,
serving ESRD patients temporarily residing at those locations or locations in
need of ESRD facilities under emergency circumstances
Notes
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