Added by renumbering Section 1797.8 (as added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 386, Sec. 3) by Stats. 2019, Ch. 497, Sec. 156. (AB 991) Effective January 1, 2020.
For purposes of this chapter, “rehabilitation innovation center” means a not-for-profit or government-owned rehabilitation facility that meets all of the following:
(a)Is classified as a not-for-profit entity or as a government-owned institution under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Provider of Services file.
(b)Holds at least one federal rehabilitation research and training designation for research projects on traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, or stroke rehabilitation research from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers, the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, or the Model Spinal Cord Injury Systems at the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and
Rehabilitation Research at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
(c)Has at least 200 Medi-Cal discharges per year.
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