Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R414 - Integrated Healthcare
Rule R414-140 - Choice of Health Care Delivery Program
Section R414-140-2 - Definitions

(1) The "Choice of Health Care Delivery Program" (CHCDP) is a freedom-of-choice waiver program that allows the Department to require certain groups of Medicaid clients living in Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, and Weber counties to select a health plan that provides services in accordance with the program's waiver. The waiver limits freedom of choice in choosing a health care provider.

(2) An "Enrollee" in the CHCDP is a Medicaid client who lives in an urban county and is enrolled in a health plan.

(3) A "Health Plan" in the CHCDP is a federally defined prepaid inpatient health plan, a federally defined primary care case management system or a federally defined managed care organization under contract with the Utah Department of Health to provide health care services to enrollees.

(4) A "Managed Care Organization" (MCO) is an entity that has a comprehensive risk contract with the Department to make the services it provides to its Medicaid enrollees as accessible (in terms of timeliness, amount, duration, and scope) as those services are to other Medicaid clients within the area served by the entity. The CHCDP requires MCOs to provide or arrange for services described in the CHCDP.

(5) "Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan" (PIHP) is an entity that contracts with the Department under a non-risk arrangement to provide services described in the CHCDP to Medicaid enrollees.

(6) "Primary Care Case Management" (PCCM) is a system under which a physician or other provider contracts with the State to furnish case management services and to provide access to services described in the CHCDP.

(7) "Section 1931" is the section of the Social Security Act that raises the income limits for Medicaid eligibility.

(8) "Urban county" means a county with a population greater than 175,000.

(9) "1115 Demonstration for the Primary Care Network of Utah" is a statewide demonstration waiver that expands Medicaid coverage to adults ages 19 and older who would not otherwise qualify for Medicaid. The two groups of individuals covered under the 1115 Demonstration are Primary Care Network individuals and Non-Traditional Medicaid individuals. Primary Care Network individuals are those who meet certain income requirements who would not otherwise qualify for Medicaid. Non-Traditional Medicaid individuals are those who are ages 19 and older and are not elderly, disabled or pregnant.