Direct Care Provider definition

Direct Care Provider means, Registered Professional Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses, and Certified Nursing Assistants who provide direct care to nursing facility residents.
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Direct Care Provider means any individual who, as a result of employment, contractual service, or volunteer service (including student interns) has direct care responsibilities or potential unsupervised physical or virtual access to any child or care recipient in the settings to which these rules apply.
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Direct Care Provider means a health care
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More Definitions of Direct Care Provider

Direct Care Provider means any licensed health care professional that provides health care services through direct contact with the patient, either in person or using approved telemedicine modalities as identified in Section 2290.5 of the Business and Profession Code.
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Related to Direct Care Provider

  • Child care provider means a provider who receives compensation for providing child care services on a regular basis, including an ‘eligible child care provider’ (as defined in section 658P of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858n)).

  • Care provider means a duly qualified or licensed home health aide or homemaker, personal care aide or nurse provided through a licensed home health care agency or referred by a licensed referral agency or licensed nurses registry.

  • Primary care provider means a participating provider who supervises, coordinates, or provides initial care or continuing care to a covered person, and who may be required by the health carrier to initiate a referral for specialty care and maintain supervision of health care services rendered to the covered person.

  • Health care provider or "provider" means:

  • Primary Care Provider (PCP) means a health care professional who is contracted with BCBSAZ as a PCP and generally specializes in or focuses on the following practice areas: internal medicine, family practice, general practice, pediatrics or any other classification of provider approved as a PCP by BCBSAZ. Your benefit plan does not require you to have a PCP or to have a PCP authorize specialist referrals.