(1) Unless otherwise specifically indicated by the context, for the purpose of these rules and regulations, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
- (a) Commissioner - The Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health or the Commissioner’s designee.
- (b) Department - The Tennessee Department of Health.
- (c) End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)- Kidney function is permanently impaired to the point that the kidney will no longer sustain life.
(d) Family- For the purpose of the Renal Disease Program, a family is defined as follows:
- 1. two or more persons related by birth, marriage or adoption who reside together.a household includes more than one family, the guidelines are applied separately to each family.);
- 2. a child under 18 years of age and his/her non-parent custodians when financial responsibility has been assigned to them by the court; or
- 3. parents of a patient under 18 years of age when the patient has been voluntarily placed outside the parent’s home.
- (e) Legend Drug - A pharmaceutical which requires a physician’s prescription before being dispensed.
- (f) Renal Dialysis - Any mechanical means of removing impurities from the blood.
- (g) Resident of Tennessee - A person who has established a permanent residence in Tennessee. The test for such residence is (1) an intention to stay in a place, (2) coupled with some objective indication consistent with that intent, such as a Tennessee driver’s license.
- (h) Routine Renal Drugs - Any number of pharmaceuticals which are needed to treat a patient’s end stage renal disease or its complications.
Authority: T.C.A. §68—35—103 and 4—5—202. Administrative History: Original rule certified June 7, 1974. Amendment filed January 27, 1976; effective February 26, 1976. Repeal and new rule filed October 9, 1985; effective January 14, 1986. Amendment filed January 29, 1992; effective April 29, 1992. Repeal and new rule filed September 17, 1998; effective January 28, 1999.