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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 10.09.59.01" title_num="10" subtitle_num="09" chapter_num="59" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Administrative services organization (ASO)” means the contractor procured by the State to provide the Department with administrative support services to operate the Maryland Public Behavioral Health System.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Behavioral Health Administration (BHA)” means the administration within the Department that establishes regulatory requirements that behavioral health programs are to maintain in order to become licensed by the Department.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Definitive drug test” means a drug screening test that includes:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The ability to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers, but not necessarily stereoisomers, using gas chromatography or mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography or mass spectrometry;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Qualitative or quantitative results;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>All source types for specimen selection; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Specimen validity testing, per day, 1—22 or more drug classes including metabolites, if performed.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Department” means the Maryland Department of Health, as defined in COMAR 10.09.36.01, or its authorized agents acting on behalf of the Department.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Hospital” means an institution which:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Falls within the jurisdiction of Health-General Article, Title 19, Subtitle 3, Annotated Code of Maryland; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Is licensed under COMAR 10.07.01 or is licensed by the state in which the service is provided.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Individualized education program (IEP)” has the meaning stated in COMAR 10.09.50.01.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)” has the meaning stated in COMAR 10.09.50.01.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Local school system (LSS)” means a local public school district.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Medical Assistance” has the meaning stated in COMAR 10.09.24.02.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“Medically necessary” has the meaning stated in COMAR 10.09.36.01.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>“Medicare” means the insurance program administered by the federal government under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §1395 et seq.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>“Participant” means an individual who is certified as eligible for, and is receiving, medical assistance benefits.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>“Presumptive drug test” means a drug screening test that includes:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Any number of drug classes;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Any number of devices;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The use of direct optical observation, instrument assisted direct optical observation or instrumented chemistry analyzers; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Sample validation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>“Program” has the meaning stated in COMAR 10.09.36.01.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>“Provider” means an organization or an individual practitioner furnishing the services covered under this chapter which, through appropriate agreement with the Department, has been identified as a Program provider by the issuance of a provider account number.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>“Public Behavioral Health System” means the system that provides medically necessary behavioral health services, including mental health and substance use disorder services, for Medical Assistance participants and certain other uninsured individuals.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>“Specialty mental health services” means services for which a participant’s diagnosis and treatment provider meet the criteria specified in COMAR 10.67.08 and this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>