Colorado Revised Statutes Title 27. Behavioral Health § 27-67-103. Definitions

(1) “Behavioral health administration” or “BHA” means the behavioral health administration established in section 27-50-102.

(1.3) “Behavioral health safety net provider” has the same meaning as defined in section 27-50-101.

(1.5) “Care management” includes, but is not limited to, consideration of the continuity of care and array of services necessary for appropriately treating a child or youth and the decision-making authority regarding the child's or youth's placement in and discharge from behavioral health services.

(2) “Child or youth at risk of out-of-home placement” means a child or youth who, although not otherwise categorically eligible for medicaid, meets the following criteria:

(2.5) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of the behavioral health administration.

(3) “Community-based care” means any intervention that is designed to be an alternative to residential or hospital level of care in which the child or youth resides within a noninstitutional setting.

(4) Repealed by Laws 2022, Ch. 222 (H.B. 22-1278), § 236, eff. July 1, 2024

(5) “County department” means the county or district department of human or social services.

(6) “Family advocate” has the same meaning as provided in section 27-69-102(5).

(7) “Family systems navigator” has the same meaning as provided in section 27-69-102(5.5).

(8) “First-level appeal” means the initial process a medicaid member is required to enact to contest a benefit, service, or eligibility decision made by medicaid or a medicaid managed care entity.

(9) “Medicaid child or youth who is at risk of out-of-home placement” means a child or youth who is categorically eligible for medicaid but who otherwise meets the definition of a child or youth who is at risk of out-of-home placement as defined in subsection (2) of this section.

(10) “Mental health agency” means a behavioral health services contractor through the behavioral health administration serving children and youth statewide or in a particular geographic area and with the ability to meet all expectations of this article 67.

(11) “Professional person” means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state, a psychologist certified to practice in this state, or a person licensed and in good standing to practice medicine in another state or a psychologist certified to practice and in good standing in another state who is providing medical or clinical services at a treatment facility in this state that is operated by the armed forces of the United States, the United States public health service, or the United States department of veterans affairs.

(12) Repealed by Laws 2022, Ch. 222 (H.B. 22-1278), § 136, eff. July 1, 2022.