6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1011-1 Chapter 10, pt. 2

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 20, October 25, 2024

Part 2 - [Effective 10/15/2024] DEFINITIONS

The definitions under 6 CCR 1011-1, Chapter 4, Part 2, Definitions, shall apply unless the context dictates otherwise. In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

2.1 "Denial of care" means any refusal by a hospital to provide a health-care service, or to provide a referral for a health-care service, for nonmedical reasons. It includes the following practices, whether based on formal or informal policies or practices that are not based on generally accepted standards of care:

(A) Selective refusal to provide a health-care service to some, but not all, patients based on a characteristic described in Section 24-34-601(2)(a), C.R.S.,

(B) Objections to a health-care service,

(C) Or for other nonmedical reasons; and

(D) A significant restriction on the availability of health-care services.

2.2 "Occupational therapy" means a rehabilitation procedure guided by a qualified therapist who, under medical supervision, uses any purposeful activity to gain from the patient the desired physical function and/or mental response.

2.3 "Nonmedical reasons" means nonclinical criteria, rules, or policies, whether written or unwritten, that restrict health-care professionals at a covered entity from providing types of care that a health-care professional is authorized under law to provide and that the covered entity is licensed to provide.

2.4 "Rehabilitation hospital" means a hospital that is intended to provide a community with a type of facility, licensed as a hospital, capable of rendering quality service to those patients not acutely ill and not requiring surgical, intensive, maternity, or extensive radiological or clinical laboratory services, on a direct admission thereto or as a secondary referral admission subject to the clinical judgment of attending physicians, and who may, therefore, receive a relatively high level of special medical and nursing care directed primarily to a rehabilitative or restorative process commensurate with the individual clinical diagnosis. In general, but subject to specific conditions governing a particular hospital within a given community, it is intended that a rehabilitation hospital offer its services on the basis of a full spectrum of community need without singular identification with any specific age groups or economic status of patients served.

6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 10, pt. 2

47 CR 18, September 25, 2024, effective 10/15/2024