5111.865 Home first component for unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver program.

(A) As used in this section, "unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver program" or "program" means the medicaid waiver component authorized by section 5111.864 of the Revised Code.

(B) If the United States secretary of health and human services approves the request submitted under section 5111.864 of the Revised Code to create the unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver program, the department of job and family services shall establish a home first component for the program. The home first component shall be similar to the home first component of the medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program established under section 173.401 of the Revised Code, the home first component of the Ohio home care program established under section 5111.862 of the Revised Code, and the home first component of the medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program established under section 5111.894 of the Revised Code.

Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28,HB 153, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.