N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 14 § 823.4

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 25, June 18, 2024

Section 823.4 - Definitions

For purposes of this Part, the following terms are defined:

(a) "Certified Recovery Peer Advocate - Family Peer Advocate" (CRPA-FPA) means a parent or caregiver with lived experience who is authorized by the Office.

(b) "Certified Recovery Peer Advocate - Youth Peer Advocate" (CRPA-YPA) means a self-identified consumer recipient of behavioral health services, aged 18-28, who is authorized by the Office.

(c) "Child/youth" or "children/youth" means a person or persons aged twenty-one (21) and under for purposes of the services as defined in this Part.

(d) "Children's Behavioral Health and Health Services Transformation Medicaid State Plan Provider Manual" (Manual) means the guide describing six children's health and behavioral health benefits approved pursuant to the Medicaid State Plan (the Manual is incorporated by reference pursuant to Part 800 of this Title).

(e) "Children's services" means health and behavioral health services as defined in 18 NYCRR Part 507 and authorized by the NYS Department of Health to be provided by certified treatment providers pursuant to rules and regulations of the Office.

(f) "Crisis plan" means a plan developed in consultation with the child/youth, their family and their crisis intervention provider; it may also be shared with other providers with the family's consent. The crisis plan is developed to reduce or manage crisis related symptoms, promote healthy behavior, address safety concerns, and prevent or reduce the risk of harm or diffusion of dangerous situations.

(g) "Early Periodic Screening and Diagnostic Treatment" (EPSDT) means the provision of comprehensive and preventive health and behavioral health services for children/youth under age twenty-one (21) enrolled in Medicaid. EPSDT is intended to ensure that such children/youth receive appropriate preventive, dental, health, behavioral health, developmental and specialty services.

(h) "Evidence based practice" (EBP) means an intervention for which there is rigorous scientific evidence demonstrating their effectiveness or efficacy in improving child/youth outcomes.

(i) "Family" means the primary caregiving unit and is inclusive of the wide diversity of primary caregiving units such as birth, foster and adoptive parents or a self-created unit of people with significant attachment to one another.

(j) "Licensed practitioner of the healing arts" (LPHA) mean s an individual who is licensed and practicing within the scope of their state license and may recommend rehabilitative services.

A Licensed practitioner of the healing arts includes:

(1) A Registered Professional Nurse;

(2) Nurse Practitioner;

(3) Psychiatrist;

(4) Licensed Psychologist;

(5) Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW);

(6) Mental Health Practitioner including: a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), a marriage and family therapist (LMFT), a creative arts therapist (LCAT), and licensed psychoanalyst.

(7) Physician.

(8) A Licensed Master Social Worker and Physician Assistant who are licensed and practicing within the scope of their state license may recommend rehabilitation services only where noted in the Manual.

(k) "State Agencies" means the New York State Department of Health (DOH), the Office of Mental Health (OMH), the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) and this Office, for purposes of this part.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 14 § 823.4

Repealed New York State Register March 22, 2017/Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, eff. 3/22/2017

Adopted New York State Register January 24, 2018 /Volume XL, Issue 04, eff. 1/24/2018

Amended New York State Register December 18, 2019/Volume XLI, Issue 51, eff. 12/18/2019