ARSD 67:16:39:01. Definitions

As used in this chapter: (1) "Designated covering provider," means another physician at the primary care provider's clinic who has an arrangement with a primary care provider to act as the recipient's primary care provider when the recipient's primary care provider is unable to see the recipient; (2) "Primary care provider program," means a program that requires the management and treatment of a recipient's medical care by a single primary care provider, including necessary referrals by the primary care provider for specialty care or services; (3) "Primary care provider," means the physician or facility chosen by the recipient or assigned by the department under §§ 67:16:39:05 and 67:16:39:06 to provide primary care provider program services; and (4) "Primary health care service," means the prescribing of or directing the use by any person of any drug, medicine, apparatus, or other agency, for the cure, relief, or palliation of any ailment or disease of the mind or body, or the cure or relief of any wound, fracture, bodily injury, or deformity.