[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR303.13]

[Page 169]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
 CHAPTER III--OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, 
                         DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 300_ASSISTANCE TO STATES FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN 
WITH DISABILITIES--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart H_Preschool Grants for Children with Disabilities
 
Sec.  303.13  Health services.

    (a) As used in this part, health services means services necessary 
to enable a child to benefit from the other early intervention services 
under this part during the time that the child is receiving the other 
early intervention services.
    (b) The term includes--
    (1) Such services as clean intermittent catheterization, 
tracheostomy care, tube feeding, the changing of dressings or colostomy 
collection bags, and other health services; and
    (2) Consultation by physicians with other service providers 
concerning the special health care needs of eligible children that will 
need to be addressed in the course of providing other early intervention 
services.
    (c) The term does not include the following:
    (1) Services that are--
    (i) Surgical in nature (such as cleft palate surgery, surgery for 
club foot, or the shunting of hydrocephalus); or
    (ii) Purely medical in nature (such as hospitalization for 
management of congenital heart ailments, or the prescribing of medicine 
or drugs for any purpose).
    (2) Devices necessary to control or treat a medical condition.
    (3) Medical-health services (such as immunizations and regular 
``well-baby'' care) that are routinely recommended for all children.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1432(4))
    Note: The definition in this section distinguishes between the 
health services that are required under this part and the medical-health 
services that are not required. The IFSP requirements in subpart D of 
this part provide that, to the extent appropriate, these other medical-
health services are to be included in the IFSP, along with the funding 
sources to be used in paying for the services or the steps that will be 
taken to secure the services through public or private sources. 
Identifying these services in the IFSP does not impose an obligation to 
provide the services if they are otherwise not required to be provided 
under this part. (See Sec.  303.344(e) and the note 3 following that 
section.)