Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 317 - Oklahoma Health Care Authority
Chapter 30 - Medical Providers-Fee for Service
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 317:30-1-4 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Adult" means an individual twenty-one (21) years of age or older, unless otherwise specified by statute, regulation, and/or policy adopted by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA). For eligibility criteria policy for children and adults, please refer to Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC) 317:35-5-2.
"Alien" means an individual who does not have United States citizenship and is not a United States national. It is synonymous with the word "noncitizen".
"CMS" means the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services.
"Child" means an individual under twenty-one (21) years of age, unless otherwise specified by statute, regulation, and/or policy adopted by the OHCA. For eligibility criteria policy for children and adults, please refer to OAC 317:35-5-2.
"Diagnosis Related Group" means a patient classification system that relates types of patients treated to the resources they consume.
"Expansion Adult" means an individual defined by 42 Code of Federal Regulations § 435.119 who is age nineteen (19) or older and under sixty-five (65), at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), and who are not categorically related to the aged, blind, and disabled.
"Habilitation" means health care services that are aimed at helping people gain certain new skills, abilities, knowledge and functioning for daily living.
"Noncitizen" means an individual who does not have United States citizenship and is not a United States national. It is synonymous with the word "alien".
"OKDHS" means the Oklahoma Department of Human Services which is also referenced in rules as Department of Human Services (DHS) and Office of Human Services (OHS).
"Rehabilitation" means health care services that help a person to re-gain skills, abilities or knowledge that may have been lost or compromised as a result of acquiring a disability, or due to a change in one's disability or circumstances.
