Terms Used In Idaho Code 39-5604

  • Director: means the director of the department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 39-5602
  • participant: means an individual determined eligible by the department for Idaho medicaid services, as authorized by title XIX, of the social security act, as amended. See Idaho Code 39-5602
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
  • Personal assistant: means an individual who directly provides personal assistance services. See Idaho Code 39-5602
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Provider: means a personal assistance agency, a fiscal intermediary agency or a PCS family alternate care provider. See Idaho Code 39-5602
  • The director shall require providers to obtain health tests or screens, criminal background and nurse’s aide registry checks, and licenses and/or certifications necessary to protect the health, person and property of the participant for any personal assistant acting as an employee, agent, or contractor of a provider. He may deny provider status or revoke that status when a provider or an employee, agent, or contractor of a provider, is found to endanger the health, person or property of the participant.