Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 13 - HEALTH PLANNING AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Subchapter C - DESIGNATION OF PRACTICES SERVING MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS
Section 13.32 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 25 TX Admin Code ยง 13.32

Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024

The following words and terms, when used in these sections, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1) Area--A county, census tract, group of census tracts, or other identifiable geographic area in which the majority of the practice's patients live.

(2) Department--The Department of State Health Services.

(3) Eligible client populations--Residents meeting the eligibility criteria for participation in any of the following programs:

(A) federally funded health care programs, including, but not limited to: AIDS (health care delivery programs); community and migrant health centers (Public Health Service Act, §§329 and 330 grantees); family planning; homeless (including Public Health Service Act, §340 grantees); Medicaid; or Medicare;

(B) state funded health care programs, including, but not limited to: AIDS (health care delivery programs); children with special health care needs (CSHCN); Medicaid; state primary health care; or student health centers (state funded colleges and universities); or

(C) locally funded health care programs, including, but not limited to: locally supported nonprofit health care programs; programs funded by city or county governmental entities; or programs funded by hospital districts.

(4) Primary care physicians--Physicians practicing in family/general practice, obstetrics/gynecology, internal medicine, geriatrics, or pediatrics.

(5) Practice serving a medically underserved population (Practice-MUP)--An eligible practice designated by the department as a practice serving a medically underserved population in accordance with the Texas Occupations Code, § 157.051(11)(F) and this subchapter.

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