25 Tex. Admin. Code § 13.32 - Definitions
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.
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