- Administration
means the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
- affected entity
means any entity—
- affected State
means a State—
- Alaska Native
means a person who is a member of any Native village, Village Corporation, or Regional Corporation (as those terms are defined in section 1602 of title 43).
- ARND
means, with a history of maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy, central nervous system abnormalities, which may range from minor intellectual deficits and developmental delays to mental retardation.
- assessment
means the systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of information on health status, health needs, and health problems.
- assisted living service
means any service provided by an assisted living facility (as defined in section 1715w(b) of title 12), except that such an assisted living facility—
- behavioral health aftercare
includes those activities and resources used to support recovery following inpatient, residential, intensive substance abuse, or mental health outpatient or outpatient treatment.
- Buy American Act
means title III of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) 1.
- Commissioner
means the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
- community college
means—
- confer
means to engage in an open and free exchange of information and opinions that—
- construction
includes the replacement of an existing facility.
- convenient care service
means any primary health care service, such as urgent care services, nonemergent care services, prevention services and screenings, and any service authorized by section 1621b of this title or 1621d(d) of this title, that is offered—
- cost sharing
includes any deduction, deductible, copayment, coinsurance, or similar charge.
- curriculum
means the culturally compatible, school-based, life skills curriculum for the prevention of Indian and Alaska Native adolescent suicide identified by the Secretary under paragraph (2)(A).
- demonstration project
means the Indian youth telemental health demonstration project authorized under section 1667b(a) of this title.
- dual diagnosis
means coexisting substance abuse and mental illness conditions or diagnosis.
- eligible entity
means—
- eligible Indian
means any Indian who is eligible for health services provided by the Service without regard to the provisions of this section.
- eligible Indian veteran
means an Indian or Alaska Native veteran who receives any medical service that is—
- eligible tribal consortium
means a consortium composed of 2 or more Service units between which a mobile health station can be transported by road in up to 8 hours.
- Facilities Appropriation Advisory Board
means the advisory board, comprised of 12 members representing Indian tribes and 2 members representing the Service, established at the discretion of the Director—
- Facilities Needs Assessment Workgroup
means the workgroup established at the discretion of the Director—
- Federal health care program
has the meaning given that term in section 1320a–7b(f) of title 42, except that, for purposes of this subsection, such term shall include the health insurance program under chapter 89 of title 5.
- Federal share
means 80 percent of the costs described in paragraph (1).
- fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
includes a range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy, including physical, mental, behavioral, and/or learning disabilities with possible lifelong implications.
- fetal alcohol syndrome
means a syndrome in which, with a history of maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy, the following criteria are met:
- food service program
includes—
- health care provider
means any health care professional, including community health aides and practitioners certified under section 1616l of this title, who is—
- health status and resource deficiency
means the extent to which—
- high-cost contract care cases
means those cases in which the cost of the medical treatment provided to an individual—
- home- and community-based service
means 1 or more of the services specified in paragraphs (1) through (9) of section 1396t(a) of title 42 (whether provided by the Service or by an Indian tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.)) 1 that are or will be provided in accordance with applicable standards.
- hospice care
means—
- immunization services
means services to provide without charge immunizations against vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Indian health program
means any health program or facility funded, in whole or part, by the Service for the benefit of Indians and administered—
- Indian lands
means—
- Indian population
means the total number of residents of an affected State who are Indian.
- junior or community college
has the meaning given to such term by section 1058(e) 1 of title 20.
- local memorandum of understanding
means a memorandum of understanding between the Secretary (or a designee, including the director of any area office of the Service) and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (or a designee) to implement the document entitled “Memorandum of Understanding Between the VA/Veterans Health Administration And HHS/Indian Health Service” and dated February 25, 2003 (relating to cooperation and resource sharing between the Veterans Health Administration and Indian Health Service).
- long-term care services
has the meaning given the term “qualified long-term care services” in section 7702B(c) of title 26.
- medical quality assurance program
means any activity carried out before, on, or after March 23, 2010, by or for any Indian health program or urban Indian organization to assess the quality of medical care, including activities conducted by or on behalf of individuals, Indian health program or urban Indian organization medical or dental treatment review committees, or other review bodies responsible for quality assurance, credentials, infection control, patient safety, patient care assessment (including treatment procedures, blood, drugs, and therapeutics), medical records, health resources management review, and identification and prevention of medical or dental incidents and risks.
- medical quality assurance record
means the proceedings, records, minutes, and reports that—
- mobile health station
means a health care unit that—
- modular component health care facility
means a health care facility that is constructed—
- non-Service health care practitioner
means a practitioner who is not—
- operations funds
means only the funds used for—
- premium
includes any enrollment fee or similar charge.
- qualified escort
means—
- rehabilitation
means medical and health care services that—
- sanitation facility
means a safe and adequate water supply system, sanitary sewage disposal system, or sanitary solid waste system (including all related equipment and support infrastructure).
- specialty health care service
includes any service relating to—
- State
has the same meaning given such term in section 254d(i)(4) 1 of title 42.
- substance abuse
includes inhalant abuse.
- telemental health
means the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance mental health care, patient and professional-related education, public health, and health administration.
- traditional food
includes—
- tribal organization
has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b).1
- tribally controlled college or university
has the meaning given to such term by section 1801(a)(4) of this title.