Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 450 - Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Chapter 24 - Standards and Criteria for Comprehensive Community Addiction Recovery Centers
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 450:24-1-2 - Definitions
The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Ambulatory Withdrawal Management without extended on-site monitoring" means withdrawal management within an outpatient setting, directed by a physician and has attendant medical personnel including nurses for intoxicated consumers, and consumers withdrawing from alcohol and other drugs, presenting with no apparent medical or neurological symptoms as a result of their use of substances require ambulatory withdrawal management as determined by an examining physician. This corresponds to ASAM Service Level: Level 1-WM Ambulatory withdrawal management without extended on-site monitoring.
"ASAM" means the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
"ASAM criteria" means the most current edition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine's published criteria for admission to treatment, continued services, and discharge.
"ASAM level 1" means Outpatient Services for adolescents and adults. This level of care typically consists of less than nine (9) hours of services per week for adults or less than six (6) hours of services per week for adolescents. Services may be delivered in a wide variety of settings.
"ASAM level 2.1" means Intensive Outpatient Services for adolescents and adults. This level of care typically consists of nine (9) or more hours of service a week for adults or six (6) or more hours of service a week for adolescents. Services are delivered as organized outpatient services during the day, before or after work or school, in the evening, and/or on weekends.
"ASAM level 3" means residential and inpatient services and encompasses ASAM levels 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 and 3.7.
"ASAM level 3.1" means Clinically Managed Low-Intensity Residential Services for adolescents and adults. This level of care typically provides at least five (5) hours of clinical services a week and provides a twenty-four (24) hour living support and structure with trained personnel. The corresponding service description for this level of care is Halfway House Services.
"ASAM level 3.3" means Clinically Managed Population-Specific High-Intensity Residential Services. This level of care is for adults only and typically offers twenty-four (24) hour care with trained personnel and is designed to accommodate individuals with cognitive or other impairments. The corresponding service description for this level of care is Residential Treatment for Adults with Co-Occurring Disorders.
"ASAM level 3.5" means Clinically Managed Medium-Intensity Residential Services for adolescents and Clinically Managed High-Intensity Residential Services for adults. This level of care provides twenty-four (24) hour care and offers a wide range of therapeutic services. The corresponding service descriptions for this level of care are Residential Treatment and Intensive Residential Treatment.
"ASAM level 3.7" means Medically Monitored High-Intensity Inpatient Services for adolescents and Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Withdrawal Management for adults. This level of care provides twenty-four (24) hour nursing care with physician supervision and medication availability. This level of care is appropriate for individuals withdrawing from alcohol or other drugs with subacute biomedical and emotional, behavioral, or cognitive problems severe enough to require inpatient treatment but for whom hospitalization is not necessary. The corresponding service description for this level of care is Medically Supervised Withdrawal Management.
"Case management services" means planned referral, linkage, monitoring and support, and advocacy provided in partnership with a consumer to assist that consumer with self sufficiency and community tenure and take place in the individual's home, in the community, or in the facility, in accordance with a service plan developed with and approved by the consumer and qualified staff.
"Clinical privileging" means an organized method for treatment facilities to authorize an individual permission to provide specific care and treatment services to consumers within well-defined limits, based on the evaluation of the individual's license, education, training, experience, competence, judgment, and other credentials.
"Comprehensive Community Addiction Recovery Center" or "CCARC" means a facility offering a comprehensive array of community-based substance use disorder treatment services, including but not limited to, outpatient services, Intensive outpatient services, ambulatory withdrawal management services, emergency care, consultation and education; and, certain services at the option of the center, including but not limited to, prescreening, rehabilitative services, aftercare, training programs, research and evaluation.
"Community-based Structured Crisis Center" or"CBSCC" means a program of non-hospital emergency services for mental health and substance use disorder crisis stabilization as authorized by 43A O.S. §3-317, including, but not limited to, observation, evaluation, emergency treatment and referral, when necessary, for inpatient psychiatric or substance use disorder treatment services. This service is limited to CCARC's who are certified by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or facilities operated by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
"Consumer" means an individual, adult, adolescent, or child, who has applied for, is receiving or has received evaluation or treatment services from a facility operated or certified by ODMHSAS or with which ODMHSAS contracts and includes all persons referred to in OAC Title 450 as client(s) or patient(s) or resident(s) or a combination thereof.
"Consumer advocacy" includes all activities on behalf of the consumer to assist with or facilitate resolution of problems in the acquisition of resources or services needed by the consumer
"Co-occurring disorder" (COD) means any combination of mental health symptoms and substance use disorder symptoms or diagnoses that affect a consumer and are typically determined by the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
"Co-occurring disorder capability" means the organized capacity within any type of program to routinely screen, identify, assess, and provide properly matched interventions to consumers with co-occurring disorders.
"Crisis Diversion" means an unanticipated, unscheduled situation requiring supportive assistance, face-to-face or telephone, to resolve immediate problems before they become overwhelming and severely impair the individual's ability to function or maintain in the community.
"Crisis Intervention" means actions taken, and services provided to address emergency psychological, physiological, and safety aspects of alcohol, drug-related, and mental health crises.
"Crisis stabilization" means emergency, psychiatric, and substance use disorder treatment services for the resolution of crisis situations and may include placement of an individual in a protective environment, basic supportive care, and medical assessment, and, if needed, referral to an ODMHSAS certified facility having nursing and medical support available.
"Cultural competency" means the ability to recognize, respect, and address the unique needs, worth, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs and values that reflect an individual's racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, and/or social group.
"Emergency examination" means the examination of a person who appears to be a mentally ill person, an alcohol-dependent person, or drug-dependent person and a person requiring treatment, and whose condition is such that it appears that emergency detention may be warranted by a licensed mental health professional to determine if emergency detention of the person is warranted.
"Face-To-Face" for the purposes of the delivery of behavioral health care, means a face-to-face physical contact and in-person encounter between the health care provider and the consumer, including the initial visit. The use of telemedicine shall be considered a face-to-face encounter.
"Gambling disorder treatment services" means treatment activities for consumers by a gambling treatment professional that include, but are not limited to, the following:
(A) Assessment and diagnostic impression, ongoing;
(B) Treatment planning and revision, as necessary;
(C) Individual, group and family therapy;
(D) Case management;
(E) Psychosocial rehabilitation; and
(F) Discharge planning.
"Independent living skills, assistance in development of" means all activities directed at assisting individuals in the development of skills necessary to live and function within the community, e.g., cooking, budgeting, meal planning, housecleaning, problem-solving, communication and vocational skills.
"Intensive outpatient services" means an organized, non-residential outpatient treatment services with scheduled sessions that provide a range of nine (9) to fifteen (15) treatment hours per week for adults or six (6) to twelve (12) treatment hours per week for children. Intensive outpatient services may offer evening outpatient services several nights per week or be incorporated into an inpatient or residential treatment program in which the consumer participates in daytime treatment services but goes home at night. This corresponds to ASAM patient Placement Criteria Treatment Level: Level II.1 Intensive outpatient.
"Levels of care" means the different options for treatment as described in the current edition of the ASAM criteria that vary according to the services offered. Each treatment option is a level of care.
"Licensed Behavioral Health Professional" or "LBHP" means:
(A) An Allopathic or Osteopathic Physician with a current license and board certification in psychiatry or board eligible in the state in which services are provided, or a current resident in psychiatry;
(B) An Advanced Practice Registered Nurse licensed as a registered nurse with a current certification of recognition from the board of nursing in the state in which services are provided and certified in a psychiatric mental health specialty;
(C) A Clinical Psychologist who is duly licensed to practice by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists;
(D) A Physician Assistant who is licensed in good standing in Oklahoma and has received specific training for and is experienced in performing mental health therapeutic, diagnostic, or counseling functions;
(E) A practitioner with a license to practice in the state in which services are provided by one of the following licensing boards:
(i) Social Work (clinical specialty only);
(ii) Professional Counselor;
(iii) Marriage and Family Therapist;
(iv) Behavioral Practitioner; or
(v) Alcohol and Drug Counselor.
"Licensed mental health professional" or "LMHP" as defined in Title 43A § 1-103(11).
"Licensure Candidate" means practitioners actively and regularly receiving board approved supervision, and extended supervision by a fully licensed clinician if board's supervision requirement is met but the individual is not yet licensed, to become licensed by one of the following licensing boards:
(A) Psychology;
(B) Social Work (clinical specialty only);
(C) Professional Counselor;
(D) Marriage and Family Therapist;
(E) Behavioral Practitioner; or
(F) Alcohol and Drug Counselor.
"Linkage" refers to the communication and coordination with other service providers to assure timely appropriate referrals between the CCARC and other providers.
"ODMHSAS" means the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
"Oklahoma Administrative Code" or "OAC" means the publication authorized by 75 O.S. § 256 known as The Oklahoma Administrative Code or, prior to its publication, the compilation of codified rules authorized by 75 O.S. § 256(A) (1) (a) and maintained in the Office of Administrative Rules.
"On-premise meal service" means meals that are prepared and cooked in a commercial kitchen located on the facility premises.
"Outpatient services" means an organized, non-residential treatment service in regularly scheduled session intended for individuals not requiring a more intensive level of care or those who require continuing services following more intensive treatment regimens. This corresponds to ASAM criteria Treatment Level I, Outpatient Treatment. Services can address early intervention needs and increase in frequency and intensity up to 9 treatment hours per week.
"Peer Recovery Support Specialist" or "PRSS" means an individual who meets the qualifications and is certified as a PRSS pursuant to OAC 450:53.
"Performance Improvement" or "PI" means an approach to the continuous study and improvement of the processes of providing health care services to meet the needs of consumers and others. Synonyms, and near synonyms include continuous quality improvement, continuous improvement, organization-wide quality improvement and total quality management.
"Progress notes" means a chronological written description of services provided to a consumer, resident, client, or patient that documents, utilizing acceptable documentation practices, the consumer's response related to the intervention plan or services provided.
"Psychotherapy" or"Therapy" means a goal directed process using generally accepted clinical approaches provided face-to-face by a LBHP or Licensure Candidate with consumers in individual, group or family settings to promote positive emotional or behavioral change.
"Rehabilitation Services" means face-to-face individual or group services provided by qualified staff to develop skill necessary to perform activities of daily living and successful integration into community life.
"Screening" means the process to determine whether the person seeking assistance needs further comprehensive assessment.
"Service area" means a geographic area established by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for support of mental health and substance use disorder treatment services [43A O.S.§3-302(1)].
"Service plan" or"Treatment plan" means the document used during the process by which a LBHP or Licensure Candidate and the consumer together and jointly identify and rank problems, establish agreed-upon immediate short-term and long-term goals, and decide on the treatment process and resources to be utilized.
"Substance withdrawal" means a state of being in which a group of symptoms of variable clustering and degree of severity occur on cessation or reduction of use of a psychoactive substance that has been taken repeatedly, usually for a prolonged period and/or in high doses. The syndrome may be accompanied by signs of physiological disturbance. Onset and course of the withdrawal state are time-limited and are related to the type of substance and the dose being used immediately before abstinence.
"Supportive services" refers to assistance with the development of problem-solving and decision-making skills to maintain or achieve optimal functioning within the community and can include consumer education.
"Trauma informed capability" means the capacity for a facility and all its programs to recognize and respond accordingly to the presence of the effects of past and current traumatic experiences in the lives of its consumers.
"Urgent Recovery Clinic" means a program of non-hospital emergency services for mental health and substance use crisis response including, but not limited to, observation, evaluation, emergency treatment, and referral, when necessary to a higher level of care. This service is limited to CMHCs and Comprehensive Community Addiction Recovery Centers (CCARCs) certified by ODMHSAS or facilities operated by ODMHSAS.
"Vocational assessment services" means a process utilized to determine the individual's functional work-related abilities and vocational preferences for the purpose of the identification of the skills and environmental supports needed by the individual in order to function more independently in an employment setting, and to determine the nature and intensity of services which may be necessary to obtain and retain employment.
"Vocational placement services" means a process of developing or creating an appropriate employment situation matched to the functional abilities and choices of the individual for the purpose of vocational placement. Services may include, but are not limited to, the identification of employment positions, conducting job analysis, matching individuals to specific jobs, and the provision of advocacy with potential employers based on the choice of the individual served.
"Vocational preparation services" means services that focus on development of general work behavior for the purpose of vocational preparation such as the utilization of individual or group work-related activities to assist individuals in understanding the meaning, value and demands of work; to modify or develop positive work attitudes, personal characteristics and work behaviors; to develop functional capacities; and to obtain optimum levels of vocational development.
"Wellness" means the condition of good physical, mental and emotional health, especially when maintained by an appropriate diet, exercise, and other lifestyle
Added at 28 Ok Reg 2025, eff 10-1-11
