New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 36 - DIALYSIS AND KIDNEY FACILITIES AND TRAINING
Part 2 - REQUIREMENTS FOR END STAGE RENAL DISEASE FACILITIES
Section 7.36.2.9 - TYPES OF END STAGE RENAL DISEASE (ESRD) FACILITIES AND SCOPE OF SERVICES

Universal Citation: 7 NM Admin Code 7.36.2.9

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024

A. Renal transplantation center: A hospital unit which is approved to furnish directly, transplantation and other medical and surgical specialty services required for the care of the ESRD transplant patients, including inpatient dialysis furnished directly or under arrangement. A renal transplantation center may also be a renal dialysis center.

B. Renal dialysis center: A hospital unit which is approved and licensed to furnish the full spectrum of diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services required for the care of ESRD dialysis patients (including inpatient dialysis furnished directly or under arrangement). A hospital need not provide renal transplantation to qualify as a renal dialysis center.

C. Renal dialysis facility: A unit which is located in a building other than a hospital which is approved and licensed to furnish dialysis services directly to ESRD patients.

D. Self dialysis unit: A unit that is within a licensed renal transplantation center, renal dialysis center, or a renal dialysis facility, which provides self-dialysis service.

E. Special purpose renal dialysis facility: A renal dialysis facility which is approved and licensed pursuant to these regulations to provide dialysis at special locations on a short term basis (not to exceed eight (8) months) to a group of dialysis patients otherwise unable to obtain treatment in the geographical area. The special locations must be either special rehabilitative (including vacation) locations serving ESRD patients temporarily residing there, or locations in need of ESRD facilities under emergency circumstances.

F. End stage renal disease (ESRD) services: The types of care or services furnished to an ESRD patient are:

(1) transplantation service which is a process by which:
(a) a kidney is excised from a live or cadaveric donor;

(b) that kidney is implanted in an ESRD patient;

(c) supportive care is furnished to the living donor and to the recipient following implantation;

(d) this service is only provided at an approved and licensed transplantation center.

(2) inpatient dialysis which because of medical necessity, is furnished to an ESRD patient on a temporary inpatient basis in a hospital. This service may only be provided by a transplantation center or renal dialysis center.

(3) outpatient dialysis is dialysis furnished on an outpatient basis at a licensed transplantation center, renal dialysis center, or renal dialysis facility and includes:
(a) staff assisted dialysis which is dialysis performed by the staff of the center or facility;

(b) self dialysis which is performed with little or no professional assistance, by an ESRD patient who has completed an appropriate course of training;

(c) home dialysis performed by an appropriately trained patient at home.

(4) self dialysis and home dialysis training in which the licensed ESRD transplantation center, renal dialysis center, or renal dialysis facility provides a program that trains ESRD patients to perform self-dialysis or home dialysis with little or no professional assistance, and trains other individuals to assist patients in performing self-dialysis or home dialysis.

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