[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR432.2]



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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH

 

  CHAPTER IV--CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 

                  HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED)

 

PART 432_STATE PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart A_General Provisions

 

Sec.  432.2  Definitions.



    As used in this part--

    Community service aides means subprofessional staff, employed in a 

variety of positions, whose duties are an integral part of the agency's 

responsibility for planning, administration, and for delivery of health 

services.

    Directly supporting staff means secretarial, stenographic, and 

copying personnel and file and records clerks who provide clerical 

services that directly support the responsibilities of skilled 

professional medical personnel, who are directly supervised by the 

skilled professional medical personnel, and who are in an employer-

employee relationship with the Medicaid agency.

    Fringe benefits means the employer's share of premiums for workmen's 

compensation, employees' retirement, unemployment compensation, health 

insurance, and similar expenses.

    Full-time training means training that requires employees to be 

relieved of all responsibility for performance of current agency work to 

participate in a training program.

    Part-time training means training that allows employees to continue 

full-time in their agency jobs or requires only partial reduction of 

work activities to participate in the training activity.

    Skilled professional medical personnel means physicians, dentists, 

nurses, and other specialized personnel who have professional education 

and training in the field of medical care or appropriate medical 

practice and who are in an employer-employee relationship with the 

Medicaid agency. It does not include other nonmedical health 

professionals such as public administrators, medical analysts, 

lobbyists, senior managers or administrators of public assistance 

programs or the Medicaid program.

    Staff of other public agencies means skilled professional medical 

personnel and directly supporting staff who are employed in State or 

local agencies other than the Medicaid agency who perform duties that 

directly relate to the administration of the Medicaid program.

    Subprofessional staff means persons performing tasks that demand 

little or no formal education; a high school diploma; or less than 4 

years of college.

    Supporting staff means secretarial, stenographic, clerical, and 

other subprofessional staff whose activities are directly necessary to 

the carrying out of the functions which are the responsibility of 

skilled professional medical personnel, as defined in this section.

    Training program means a program of educational activities based on 

the agency's training needs and aimed at insuring that agency staff 

acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to perform their jobs.

    Volunteer means a person who contributes personal service to the 

community through the agency's program but is not a replacement or 

substitute for paid staff.



[43 FR 45199, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 50 FR 46663, Nov. 12, 1985; 

50 FR 49389, Dec. 2, 1985]