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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-401" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Home Health Agencies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Home health agency” means a health-related institution, organization, or a part of an institution that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is owned or operated by 1 or more persons, whether or not for profit and whether as a public or private enterprise; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Directly or through a contractual arrangement, provides to a sick or disabled individual in the residence of that individual skilled nursing services, home health aid services, and at least one other home health care service that are centrally administered.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Home health care” means any of the following services that are provided under the general direction of a licensed health professional practicing within the scope of their practice:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Audiology and speech pathology;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Dietary and nutritional services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Drug services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Home health aid;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Laboratory;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Medical social services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Nursing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Occupational therapy;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>Physical therapy; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>Provision of medically necessary sickroom equipment and supplies.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>However, the provisions of this subsection do not apply to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A nursing referral service agency that is licensed as a nursing referral service agency under the provisions of Subtitle 4B of this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A home-based hospice care program that is licensed as a home-based hospice care program under the provisions of Subtitle 9 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A home health agency shall also be licensed as a hospice care program if the home health agency operates a hospice care program that is distinct from its other services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
