The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 74.39A.030, 74.39A.095, * 74.39A.220 through 74.39A.300, and ** 41.56.151 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Consumer" means a person to whom an individual provider provides any such services.
(2) "Department" means the department of social and health services.
(3) "Individual provider" means a person, including a personal aide, who, under an individual provider contract with the department or as an employee of a consumer directed employer, provides personal care or respite care services to persons who are functionally disabled or otherwise eligible under programs authorized and funded by the medicaid state plan, medicaid waiver programs[,] chapter 71A.12 RCW, RCW 74.13.270, or similar state-funded in-home care programs.