TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 13

HOSPITALS

39-1301.  Definitions. For purposes of this section through section 39-1309, Idaho Code, the following terms shall be defined as follows:

(1)  "CMS" means the centers for medicare and medicaid services.

(2)  "Department" means the department of health and welfare.

(3)  "Government unit" means the state, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision, or any department, division, board, or other agency thereof.

(4)  "Home health agency" means any business entity that primarily provides skilled nursing services by licensed nurses and also provides at least one (1) other health care service to an individual in that individual’s place of residence.

(5)  "Hospice house" means a facility that is owned and operated by a medicare certified hospice agency for the purpose of providing inpatient hospice services consistent with 42 CFR 418.110.

(6)  "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 1861 of the social security act.

(7)  "Intermediate care facility" means a nonnursing home facility, designed and operated to meet the unique educational, training, habilitative, and medical needs of the developmentally disabled through the provision of active treatment.

(8)  "Nursing facility" or "nursing home" has the same meaning as in 42 CFR.

(9)  "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof.

History:

[39-1301, added 2025, ch. 122, sec. 20, p. 634.]