Colorado Code
Part 3 - Home- and Community-Based Services for the Elderly, Blind, and Disabled
§ 25.5-6-303. Definitions

As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires:

(b) "Case management agency", for counties participating in the single entry point system pursuant to this article before July 1, 1995, and for all counties on and after said date, means a public or private, nonprofit or for profit agency that meets all applicable state and federal requirements and is certified by the state department to provide case management functions reimbursable under this article and articles 4 and 5 of this title, within a geographic area of the state consisting of one or more counties. Such functions shall be provided by the agency under a contract executed with the state department or other state designated agency. The state department shall establish procedures for the designation, certification, and decertification of case management agencies and requirements for performance and staffing of the agencies. Such procedures and requirements shall be set forth in rules promulgated by the state board or shall be included in the contracts executed by the state department.
(5) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (5) is effective July 1, 2024. ] (a) "Case management agency" means agencies providing services on and before July 1, 1995, for home- and community-based programs for the elderly, blind, and disabled shall be terminated July 1, 1995, and case management functions shall thereafter be performed in accordance with this article 6.
(b) "Case management agency" has the same meaning as set forth in section 25.5-6-1702 (2).

(6) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (6) is effective July 1, 2024. ] "Case management services" has the same meeting as set forth in section 25.5-6-1702 (3).

(7) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (7) is effective July 1, 2024. ] "Case plan" means a coordinated plan for the provision of long-term-care services in a setting other than a nursing home, developed and managed by a case management agency, in coordination with the client, the client's family or guardian, the client's physician, and other providers of care.

Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1938, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2015: (21) amended, (SB 15-240), ch. 139, p. 423, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2016: (21) amended, (SB 16-093), ch. 54, p. 132, § 4, effective July 1. L. 2018: IP amended and (21) repealed, (HB 18-1326), ch. 183, p. 1239, § 2, effective July 1; IP and (5)(a) amended, (SB 18-093), ch. 62, p. 610, § 7, effective August 8. L. 2021: (9) amended, (SB 21-210), ch. 78, p. 303, § 1, effective April 30; (5), (6), and (7) amended, (HB 21-1187), ch. 83, p. 333, § 30, effective July 1, 2024.

Cross references: (1) For additional definitions applicable to this part 3, see § 25.5-4-103.
(2) For the legislative declaration in SB 18-093, see section 1 of chapter 62, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.