Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 228 - Disclosure of Mental Health and Psychological Information

• Administrative information: means an individual's name, identifying number, age, sex, address, dates and character of professional services provided to the individual, fees for the professional services, third-party payor name and payor number of a patient, if known, name and location of the facility where treatment is received, the date of the individual's admission to the facility, and the name of the individual's attending physician or attending mental health professional. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Court: shall mean and include any court upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Data collector: means a person, other than a mental health professional or an employee of or agent for a mental health facility, who regularly assembles or evaluates mental health information. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Law enforcement professional: means a law enforcement officer as defined in section 80B. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mental health facility: means a community mental health center, hospital, clinic, office, health care facility, infirmary, or similar place in which professional services are provided. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Mental health information: means oral, written, or recorded information which indicates the identity of an individual receiving professional services and which relates to the diagnosis, course, or treatment of the individual's mental or emotional condition. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Mental health professional: means an individual who has either of the following qualifications:
   a. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Party: means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Peer review organization: means a utilization and quality control peer review organization that has a contract with the federal secretary of health and human services pursuant to Tit. See Iowa Code 228.1
• person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional services: means diagnostic or treatment services for a mental or emotional condition provided by a mental health professional. See Iowa Code 228.1
• Self-insured employer: means a person which provides accident and health benefits or medical, surgical, or hospital benefits on a self-insured basis to its own employees or to employees of an affiliated company or companies and which does not otherwise provide accident and health benefits or medical, surgical, or hospital benefits. See Iowa Code 228.1
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Third-party payor: means a person which provides accident and health benefits or medical, surgical, or hospital benefits, whether on an indemnity, reimbursement, service, or prepaid basis, including but not limited to, insurers, nonprofit health service corporations, health maintenance organizations, governmental agencies, and self-insured employers. See Iowa Code 228.1