5101:3-13-01.6 Fee-for-service ambulatory health care clinics (AHCCs): professional optometry school clinics.

Requirements outlined in rule 5101:3-13-01 of the Administrative Code apply to all fee-for-service AHCCs.

(A) Any organization applying to be a medicaid fee-for-service ambulatory health care professional optometry school clinic provider on and after January 1, 2008 must:

(1) Meet the criteria for fee-for-service AHCC providers in accordance with paragraph (C) of rule 5101:3-13-01 of the Administrative Code; and

(2) Be a professional optometry school clinic accredited by the accreditation council on optometry education (ACOE) of the American optometric association.

(B) Covered services are optometry services specified in accordance with Chapter 5101:3-6 of the Administrative Code.

(C) In accordance with paragraph (A)(5)(a) of rule 5101:3-6-01 of the Administrative Code, AHCCs are eligible providers of vision services. Coverage limitations set forth in Chapter 5101:3-6 of the Administrative Code apply to AHCC services provided by opticians and optometrists.

Replaces: Part of 5101:3-13-01, Part of 5101:3-13-04

Effective: 01/01/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/01/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 5111.02

Rule Amplifies: 5111.01, 5111.02, 5111.021

Prior Effective Dates: 4/7/77, 12/30/77, 1/14/83, 4/2/83