Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 195-2-.01 - General Definitions

(1) "Residency Capitation" means the funding provided to each designated teaching hospital or hospital authority operating a teaching hospital based on:

(a) The number of residents in training, times a fixed dollar amount; and

(b) The fixed dollar amount being set by the appropriation provided for this purpose divided by the total number of residents in training at all designated teaching hospitals and all teaching hospitals operated by a hospital authority.

(2) "Teaching Hospital" is an institution owned and operated by a hospital authority which provides medical education and training of residents in addition to its other medical care delivery system responsibilities.

(3) "Designated Teaching Hospital" means a teaching hospital operated by other than a hospital authority, which hospital agrees to contract with the state to offer or continue to offer a residency program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education /ACGME, which program has at least one ACGME accredited residency program, excluding any stand-alone fellowship program, and which hospital operates a 24 hour, seven-day-per week emergency room open to the public, and which hospital flies a semiannual statistical report consistent with those filed by other state funded tertiary, neonatal obstetrical centers with the Family Health Section of the Department of Human Resources.

(4) "Medical Education and Training" consists of an ACGME approved residency program, one year or longer in duration, which prepares graduates of medical schools to practice in a general or specialty field of medicine or surgery.

(5) "Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education" is the body established to accredit residency programs.

(6) "Certification" is the process utilized to determine the number of residents receiving medical education and training through a designated teaching hospital or a teaching hospital operated by a hospital authority which serves as the basis for issuance of capitation payments.

(7) "Resident" means an individual at any level of training in an ACGME-accredited Graduate Medical Education Program, including subspecialty programs.

(8) "Fellow" refers to an individual undertaking post-graduate residency training in a field of research that is not accredited by the ACGME.

Notes

Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 195-2-.01

O.C.G.A. §§ 31-7-95, 49-10.

Original Rule entitled "General Definitions" adopted. F. Sept. 2, 1980; eff. Sept. 22, 1980. Amended: F. Feb. 12, 1985; eff. Mar. 4, 1985. Amended: F. Feb. 12, 1998; eff. Mar. 4, 1998. Repealed: New Rule, same title adopted. F. Nov. 13, 2000; eff. Dec. 3, 2000. Repealed: New Rule of same title adopted. F. Jan. 10, 2005; eff. Jan. 30, 2005. Amended: F. Dec. 19, 2022; eff. Jan. 8, 2023.