441—83.60(249A) Definitions.
“Adaptive” means age-appropriate skills related to taking care of one’s self and one’s ability to relate to others in daily living situations. These skills include limitations that occur in the areas of communication, self-care, home-living, social skills, community use, self-direction, safety, functional activities of daily living, leisure or work.
“Adult” means a person with an intellectual disability aged 18 or over.
“Appropriate” means that the services or supports or activities provided or undertaken by the organization are relevant to the consumer’s needs, situation, problems, or desires.
“Attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care” means an individual who is designated by a durable power of attorney for health care, pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 144B, as an agent to make health care decisions on behalf of an individual and who has consented to act in that capacity.
“Basic individual respite” means respite provided on a staff-to-consumer ratio of one to one or higher to individuals without specialized needs requiring the care of a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.
“Behavior” means skills related to regulating one’s own behavior including coping with demands from others, making choices, controlling impulses, conforming conduct to laws, and displaying appropriate sociosexual behavior.
“Case management services” means those services established pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 225C.
“Child” means a person with an intellectual disability aged 17 or under.
“Client participation” means the posteligibility amount of the consumer’s income that persons eligible through a special income level must contribute to the cost of the home and community-based waiver service.
“Counseling” means face-to-face mental health services provided to the consumer and caregiver by a qualified intellectual disability professional (QIDP) to facilitate home management of the consumer and prevent institutionalization.
“Deemed status” means acceptance of certification or licensure of a program or service by another certifying body in place of certification based on review and evaluation.
“Department” means the Iowa department of human services.
“Direct service” means services involving face-to-face assistance to a consumer such as transporting a consumer or providing therapy.
“Electronic visit verification system” means, with respect to personal care services or home health care services defined in Section 12006 of the 21st Century Cures Act, a system under which visits conducted as part of such services are electronically verified with respect to: (1) the type of service performed, (2) the individual receiving the service, (3) the date of the service, (4) the location of service delivery, (5) the individual providing the service, and (6) the time the service begins and ends.
“Fiscal accountability” means the development and maintenance of budgets and independent fiscal review.
“Group respite” is respite provided on a staff-to-consumer ratio of less than one to one.
“Guardian” means a guardian appointed in probate court.
“Health” means skills related to the maintenance of one’s health including eating; illness identification, treatment and prevention; basic first aid; physical fitness; regular physical checkups and personal habits.
“Immediate jeopardy” means circumstances where the life, health, or safety of a person will be severely jeopardized if the circumstances are not immediately corrected.
“Intellectual disability” means a diagnosis of intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder), global developmental delay, or unspecified intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) which shall be made only when the onset of the person’s condition was during the developmental period and shall be based on an assessment of the person’s intellectual functioning and level of adaptive skills. The diagnosis shall be made by a person who is a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist who is professionally trained to administer the tests required to assess intellectual functioning and to evaluate a person’s adaptive skills. The diagnosis shall be made in accordance with the criteria provided in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association.
“Intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability (ICF/ID)” means an institution that is primarily for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons with an intellectual disability or persons with related conditions and that provides, in a protected residential setting, ongoing evaluation, planning, 24-hour supervision, coordination and integration of health or related services to help each person function at the greatest ability and is an approved Medicaid vendor.
“Intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability level of care” means that the individual has a diagnosis of intellectual disability made in accordance with the criteria provided in the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association; or has a related condition as defined in 42 CFR 435.1009; and needs assistance in at least three of the following major life areas: mobility, musculoskeletal skills, activities of daily living, domestic skills, toileting, eating skills, vision, hearing or speech or both, gross/fine motor skills, sensory-taste, smell, tactile, academic skills, vocational skills, social/community skills, behavior, and health care.
“Intermittent supported community living service” means supported community living service provided not more than 52 hours per month.
“Maintenance needs” means costs associated with rent or mortgage, utilities, telephone, food and household supplies.
“Managed care” means a system that provides the coordinated delivery of services and supports that are necessary and appropriate, delivered in the least restrictive settings and in the least intrusive manner. Managed care seeks to balance three factors:
	1.	Achieving high-quality outcomes for participants.
	2.	Coordinating access.
	3.	Containing costs.
“Managed care organization” means an entity that (1) is under contract with the department to provide services to Medicaid recipients and (2) meets the definition of “health maintenance organization” as defined in Iowa Code section 514B.1.
“Medical assessment” means a visual and physical inspection of the consumer, noting deviations from the norm, and a statement of the consumer’s mental and physical condition that can be amendable to or resolved by appropriate actions of the provider.
“Medical institution” means a nursing facility, intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or hospital which has been approved as a Medicaid vendor.
“Medical intervention” means consumer care in the areas of hygiene, mental and physical comfort, assistance in feeding and elimination, and control of the consumer’s care and treatment to meet the physical and mental needs of the consumer in compliance with the plan of care in areas of health, prevention, restoration, and maintenance.
“Medical monitoring” means observation for the purpose of assessing, preventing, maintaining, and treating disease or illness based on the consumer’s plan of care.
“Natural supports” means services and supports identified as wanted or needed by the consumer and provider by persons not for pay (family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others in the community) and organizations or entities that serve the general public.
“Organization” means the entity being certified.
“Organizational outcome” means a demonstration by the organization of actions taken by the organization to provide for services or supports to consumers.
“Outcome” means an action or event that follows as a result or consequence of the provision of a service or support.
“Procedures” means the steps to be taken to implement a policy.
“Process” means service or support provided by an agency to a consumer that will allow the consumer to achieve an outcome. This can include a written, formal, consistent trackable method or an informal process that is not written but is trackable.
“Program” means a set of related resources and services directed to the accomplishment of a fixed set of goals and objectives for the population of a specified geographic area or for special target populations. It can mean an agency, organization, or unit of an agency, organization or institution.
“Qualified intellectual disability professional” means a person who has at least one year of experience working directly with persons with an intellectual disability or other developmental disabilities and who is one of the following:
	1.	A doctor of medicine or osteopathy.
	2.	A registered nurse.
	3.	An occupational therapist eligible for certification as an occupational therapist by the American Occupational Therapy Association or another comparable body.
	4.	A physical therapist eligible for certification as a physical therapist by the American Physical Therapy Association or another comparable body.
	5.	A speech-language pathologist or audiologist eligible for certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association or another comparable body or who meets the educational requirements for certification and who is in the process of accumulating the supervised experience required for certification.
	6.	A psychologist with a master’s degree in psychology from an accredited school.
	7.	A social worker with a graduate degree from a school of social work, accredited or approved by the Council on Social Work Education or another comparable body or who holds a bachelor of social work degree from a college or university accredited or approved by the Council of Social Work Education or another comparable body.
	8.	A professional recreation staff member with a bachelor’s degree in recreation or in a specialty area such as art, dance, music or physical education.
	9.	A professional dietitian who is eligible for registration by the American Dietetics Association.
	10.	A human services professional who must have at least a bachelor’s degree in a human services field including, but not limited to, sociology, special education, rehabilitation counseling and psychology.
“Related condition” means a severe, chronic disability that meets all the following conditions:
	1.	It is attributable to cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or any other condition, other than mental illness, found to be closely related to intellectual disability because the condition results in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of a person with an intellectual disability and requires treatment or services similar to those required for a person with an intellectual disability.
	2.	It is manifested before the age of 22.
	3.	It is likely to continue indefinitely.
	4.	It results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:
	●	Self-care.
	●	Understanding and use of language.
	●	Learning.
	●	Mobility.
	●	Self-direction.
	●	Capacity for independent living.
“Service plan” means a person-centered, outcome-based plan of services which is written by the member’s case manager with input and direction from the member and which addresses all relevant services and supports being provided. The service plan is developed by the interdisciplinary team, which includes the member and, if appropriate, the member’s legal representative, member’s family, service providers, and others directly involved with the member.
“SIS assessment” means the Supports Intensity Scale® assessment developed and licensed by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for use in the assessment of the support and service needs of individuals.
“Specialized respite” means respite provided on a staff-to-consumer ratio of one to one or higher to individuals with specialized medical needs requiring the care, monitoring or supervision of a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.
“Staff” means a person under the direction of the organization to perform duties and responsibilities of the organization.
“Third-party payments” means payments from an attorney, individual, institution, corporation, insurance company, or public or private agency which is liable to pay part or all of the medical costs incurred as a result of injury, disease or disability by or on behalf of an applicant or a past or present recipient of Medicaid.
“Usual caregiver” means a person or persons who reside with the consumer and are available on a 24-hour-per-day basis to assume responsibility for the care of the consumer.
[ARC 9650B, IAB 8/10/11, effective 10/1/11; ARC 0306C, IAB 9/5/12, effective 11/1/12; ARC 2050C, IAB 7/8/15, effective 7/1/15; ARC 2168C, IAB 9/30/15, effective 11/4/15; ARC 2361C, IAB 1/6/16, effective 1/1/16; ARC 3874C, IAB 7/4/18, effective 8/8/18; ARC 5597C, IAB 5/5/21, effective 7/1/21]