As used in this chapter:
1. "Administrative information" means an individual's name, identifying number, age, sex, address, dates and character of professional services provided to the individual, fees for the professional services, third-party payor number of a patient, if known, name and location of the facility where treatment is received, the date of the individual's admission to the facility, and the name of the individual's attending physician or attending mental health professional.
2. "Data collector" means a person, other than a mental health professional or an employee of or agent for a mental health facility, who regularly assembles or evaluates mental health information.
3. "Diagnostic information" means a therapeutic charac- terization of the type found in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders of the American psychiatric asociation or in a comparable professionally recognized diagnostic manual.
4. "Mental health facility" means a community mental health center, hospital, clinic, office, health care facility, infirmary, or similar place in which professional services are provided.
5. "Mental health information" means oral, written, or recorded information which indicates the identity of an in- dividual receiving professional services and which relates to the diagnosis, course, or treatment of the individual's mental or emotional condition.
6. "Mental health professional" means an individual who has all of the following qualifications:
a. The individual holds at least a master's degree in a mental health field, including but not limited to, psychology, counseling and guidance, nursing, and social work, or the individual is a physician and surgeon or an osteopathic physician and surgeon.
b. The individual holds a current Iowa license if prac- ticing in a field covered by an Iowa licensure law.
c. The individual has at least two years of post-degree clinical experience, supervised by another mental health professional, in assessing mental health needs and problems and in providing appropriate mental health services.
7. "Peer review organization" means a utilization and quality control peer review organization that has a contract with the federal secretary of health and human services pursuant to Title XI, part B, of the federal Social Security Act to review health care services paid for in whole or in part under the Medicare program established by Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act, or another organization of licensed health care professionals performing utilization and quality control review functions.
8. "Professional services" means diagnostic or treatment services for a mental or emotional condition provided by a mental health professional.
9. "Self-insured employer" means a person which provides accident and health benefits or medical, surgical, or hospital benefits on a self-insured basis to its own employees or to employees of an affiliated company or companies and which does not otherwise provide accident and health benefits or medical, surgical, or hospital benefits.
10. "Third-party payor" means a person which provides accident and health benefits or medical, surgical, or hospital benefits, whether on an indemnity, reimbursement, service, or prepaid basis, including but not limited to, insurers, nonprofit health service corporations, health maintenance organizations, governmental agencies, and self-insured employers.
86 Acts, ch 1082, § 1; 88 Acts, ch 1226, § 2, 3
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