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(24) “group practice” means a legally organized partnership, professional corporation, foundation, nonprofit corporation, or similar association comprised of one or more health care providers;

(25) “group skill development services” means face-to-face therapeutic skill instruction, skill practice, and skill monitoring, offered in a group setting, designed to help the recipient develop or improve specific self-care, self-direction, communication, or social-interaction skills necessary for successful community adjustment and interaction with persons in the recipient’s home, school, work, or community environment;

(26) “home and community-based waiver services” means services provided under AS 47.07.045 and 7 AAC 130;

(27) “home and community-based waiver services provider” means a provider that the department has certified under 7 AAC 130.220 to provide one or more home and community-based waiver services;

(28) “hospice care” has the meaning given in AS 47.07.900;

(29) “hospital” means a facility licensed by the department under 7 AAC 12 to provide inpatient and outpatient hospital services;

(30) “ICF” means an intermediate care facility;

(31) “ICF/IID” means an intermediate care facility for individuals with an intellectual disability or related condition;

(32) “individual psychotherapy” means any form of treatment for mental illness, behavioral maladaptation, or other problems that are assumed to be of an emotional nature, in which a trained individual deliberately establishes a professional relationship with an individual for the purpose of removing, modifying, or retarding existing symptoms, attenuating or reversing disturbed patterns of behavior, and promoting positive personality growth and development;

(33) “individual skill development services” means face-to-face therapeutic self-care and life skill instruction, skill practice, and skill monitoring, provided to an individual, and designed to help the recipient develop or improve specific self-care skills, engage in age-appropriate social behavior, maintain the recipient’s household, and develop the ability to be independent within the recipient’s community;

(34) “inpatient interdisciplinary team” means a team composed of physicians and other personnel who are employed by an inpatient psychiatric hospital facility, a residential psychiatric treatment center, or an individual who renders services to recipients in either facility;

(35) “inpatient psychiatric hospital” means a hospital or part of a hospital, other than a residential psychiatric treatment center, that delivers medical and inpatient psychiatric services described in 7 AAC 12.215;

(36) “inpatient psychiatric services” means diagnostic and treatment services for mental,