Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1015 - Prevention Services Division (1009, 1015, 1016 Series)
6 CCR 1015-6 - STATE-DESIGNATED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREA DESIGNATION
Section 6 CCR 1015-6-1.3 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024
1) "Behavioral Health Care Provider," pursuant to Section 25-1.5-502 (1.3), C.R.S., means the following providers who provide behavioral health care services within their scope of practice:
2) "Behavioral Health Care Services," pursuant to Section 25-1.5-502 (1.5), C.R.S., means services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of, and the recovery from, mental health and substance use disorders.
3) "Capacity" means the typical volume of health service encounters a health care professional can produce within the scope of his or her practice and scheduled clinical hours.
4) "Catchment Area" means a discrete geographic area where a preponderance of the civilian noninstitutionalized population within the service area could reasonably expect to access behavioral health services within the service area without excessive travel, when it is adequately resourced.
5) "Census Block Group" means a statistical division of a census tract defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
6) "Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population" are all people who live and sleep most of the time within the boundaries of a geographic area but are not housed in a group quarter such as a correctional institution, juvenile facility, military installation, or dormitory.
7) "Colorado Health Systems Directory" means the clinician data system administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Primary Care Office (section 25-1.5- 403, C.R.S.) which provides a comprehensive database of all licensed clinicians and health care sites in Colorado.
8) "Encounter" means an instance of direct provider to patient interaction with the primary purpose of diagnosing, evaluating or treating a patient's health care concern.
9) "Minimally Adequate Treatment" means the minimum necessary health care service visits for diagnosis, treatment or recovery needed to address a specific or general medical or behavioral health care service need.
10) "Prevalence" means the proportion of a population who has behavioral health care needs at some point within the previous year.
11) "Primary Care Provider" means the following health care professionals as defined in Section 25- 1.5-502(5), C.R.S., who provide primary care services within their scope of practice:
12) "Primary Care Services," means a type of primary health services, as defined in Section 25-1.5- 502(10), C.R.S., that involves comprehensive first contact and continuing care services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of any undiagnosed sign, symptom or health concern not limited by problem origin or diagnosis.
13) "Polygon" means a closed, irregular geometric shape on a map surface that defines equivalent road travel distances from a central point within the shape.
14) "Population Centroid" means the geometric center of a group of population points within a geographic shape (e.g., census block group).
15) "State-Designated Health Professional Shortage Area," pursuant to Section 25-1.5-402(11) and Section 25-1.5-502(13), C.R.S., means an area of the state designated by the Primary Care Office in accordance with state-specific methodologies established by the State Board by rule pursuant to Section 25-1.5-404 (1)(a), C.R.S., as experiencing a shortage of health care professionals or behavioral health care providers.
16) "State Designated Substance Use Disorder Health Professional Shortage Area" means a State-Designated Health Professional Shortage Area experiencing a shortage of behavioral health care providers providing behavioral health care services for substance use disorder.
17) "Substance Use Disorder" means mild, moderate, or severe recurrent use of drugs and/or alcohol that causes clinically and functionally significant impairment of individuals. Impairment may include health concerns, disability, risky behavior, social impairment, and failure to perform significant responsibilities at work, school, or with family. The diagnosis may be applied to the abuse of one or more of ten separate classes of drugs including alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedatives, stimulants, tobacco, and other substances. The dependent use of tobacco and caffeine are not a primary focus of this rule.
