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GLOSSARY
(MRG) PERSONAL CARE SERVICES – Provide assistance with personal hygiene, dressing, feeding and incidental household services essential to the provision of home health services when prescribed by the attending physician.
PERSONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES (PERS) – An electronic device which enable high-risk patients to secure help in the event of an emergency.
PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE (PNA) - PNA is the amount that is set aside to meet the personal needs for persons who: are residing in a medical institution and are in permanent absence status; or have a community spouse and are in receipt of home and community-based waiver services.
PETITION - A formal written application to a court requesting judicial action on a particular matter.
PETITIONER - One who files a petition.
PRE-ADD ALLOWANCE - The monthly Public Assistance allowance that is intended to cover the costs of food, clothing, incidentals and utility bills.
PRESUMPTION OF PATERNITY - A rule of law under which evidence of a man’s paternity (e.g., voluntary acknowledgment, genetic test results) creates a presumption that the husband is the father of his wife’s child. A rebuttable presumption can be overcome by evidence that the man is not the father, but it shifts the burden of proof to the father to disprove paternity.
PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY - Presumptive eligibility is Medicaid coverage provided to certain applicants who reasonably appear to meet all of the criteria, financial and non-financial, pending the completion of the full eligibility determination.
PRIVATE DUTY NURSING – Nursing services at home from Registered Nurses (RNs) or Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), in accordance with physician orders which may be beyond the scope of care, or unavailable, from certified home care agencies.
PRIVATE PROPRIETARY HOME FOR ADULTS - An adult care facility which is operated for compensation and profit, established for the purpose of providing long term residential care, room, board, housekeeping, and supervision to five or more adults unrelated to the operator.
PROBABILITY OF PATERNITY - The probability that the alleged father is the biological father of the child as indicated by genetic test results.
PRUCOL (Permanently Residing Under Color Of Law) - Any immigrant who is permanently residing in the United States with the knowledge and permission or acquiescence of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Services [INS]) and whose departure from the United States the USCIS does not contemplate enforcing.