50.50 Definitions. In this subchapter:

(1) “Ambulatory surgery center" has the meaning given in 42 CFR 416.2.

(1m) “Critical access hospital" has the meaning given in s. 50.33 (1g).

(2) “End-stage renal disease services" has the meaning given under 42 CFR 405.2102.

(3) “Health care services" means any of the following:

(a) Care that is provided in or by any of the following:

1. A hospital.

2. A nursing home.

3. A hospice.

4. A rural health clinic.

5. An ambulatory surgery center.

6. A critical access hospital.

(b) Home health services.

(c) Outpatient physical therapy services.

(cm) Outpatient occupational therapy services.

(d) End-stage renal disease services.

(e) Services that are specified in rules that the department promulgates.

(4) “Home health services" has the meaning given in s. 50.49 (1) (b).

(5) “Hospice" has the meaning given in s. 50.90 (1).

(6) “Hospital" has the meaning given in s. 50.33 (2) (a) or (b), except that “hospital" does not include a critical access hospital.

(7) “Medicare" has the meaning given in s. 49.45 (3) (L) 1. b.

(7m) “Occupational therapy" has the meaning given in s. 448.96 (5).

(8) “Outpatient physical therapy services" has the meaning given under 42 USC 1395x (p).

(9) “Patient" means an individual who receives services from a rural medical center.

(10) “Rural health clinic" has the meaning given under 42 USC 1395x (aa) (2).

(11) “Rural medical center" means an arrangement of facilities, equipment, services and personnel that is all of the following:

(a) Organized under a single governing and corporate structure.

(b) Capable of providing or assuring health care services, including appropriate referral, treatment and follow-up services, at one or more locations in a county, city, town or village that has a population of less than 15,000 and that is in an area that is not an urbanized area, as defined by the federal bureau of the census.

(c) A provider of at least 2 health care services under the arrangement or through a related corporate entity.

History: 1995 a. 98; 1997 a. 237, 252; 1999 a. 180.