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TITLE 25HEALTH SERVICES
PART 1DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
CHAPTER 13HEALTH PLANNING AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
SUBCHAPTER CDESIGNATION OF SITES SERVING MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS
RULE §13.32Definitions

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.


Source Note: The provisions of this §13.32 adopted to be effective November 19, 1990, 15 TexReg 6296; amended to be effective June 10, 2001, 26 TexReg 3935; amended to be effective December 4, 2007, 32 TexReg 8827; amended to be effective August 15, 2018, 43 TexReg 5213

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