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...(A) HPP: Within one business day of initial treatment or initial visit of an injured worker, a provider must report the employee's injury or occupational disease in accordance with either paragraph (A)(1) or (A)(2) of this rule. (1) A provider may report an injury to the MCO responsible for medical management of the employee's treatment. When reporting the injury to the MCO, the provider shall do...

...(A) To be eligible for participation in the HPP as an ambulatory surgical center arthroplasty center, an ambulatory surgical center must comply with the following minimum criteria: (1) The facility must be bureau certified as an ambulatory surgical center under paragraph (C) of rule 4123-6-02.2 of the Administrative Code. (2) The facility must have a formal joint replacement program which has be...

...(A) To be eligible for participation in the HPP as an ambulatory surgical center arthroplasty center, an ambulatory surgical center must: (1) Be certified as an ambulatory surgical center under paragraph (C) of rule 4123-6-02.2 of the Administrative Code. (2) Have a formal joint replacement program which has been in place for at least one year prior to the date of application, and have perfo...

...(A) The administrator may refuse to certify or recertify, or may decertify from participation in the HPP, any MCO that: (1) Is owned, directly or indirectly, by an individual or entity that has a felony conviction in any jurisdiction, a conviction under a federal controlled substance act, a misdemeanor conviction for an act involving dishonesty, fraud, or misrepresentation, a conviction for a...

...(A) Upon request by a managed care organization, the bureau shall send the managed care organization an MCO application for certification for the managed care organization to complete and submit to the bureau. (B) The MCO application submitted to the bureau by the managed care organization shall include a list of bureau certified providers in its provider panel and/or bureau certified providers with which the manage...

...(A) Upon request, the bureau shall send the MCO an application for certification which the MCO may complete and submit to the bureau. (B) The application submitted to the bureau by the MCO shall include a list of bureau certified providers in its provider panel and/or bureau certified providers with which the MCO has arrangements. (C) Regardless of whether the MCO elects to retain a provider...

...(A) Pursuant to division (A)(1)(h) of section 4121.441 of the Revised Code, the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, develops, maintains, and publishes a provider fee schedule for the various types of billing codes. The administrator hereby adopts the professional provider fee schedule indicated in the append...

...(A) Pursuant to division (A)(1)(h) of section 4121.441 of the Revised Code, the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, develops, maintains, and publishes a provider fee schedule for the various types of billing codes. The administrator hereby adopts the professional provider fee schedule indicated in the append...

...(A) The bureau shall review all bills received from the MCO pursuant to paragraph (A)(1) of rule 4123-6-10 of the Administrative Code for payment eligibility. The bureau's review may include, but not be limited to, verification of the following: (1) The services were delivered, rendered, or directly supervised by providers who meet bureau credentialing and licensing criteria; (2) The bills conf...

...(A) An MCO shall retain records received from providers and subcontractors that are utilized by the MCO to perform its medical management functions, to substantiate the delivery, value, necessity, and appropriateness of goods and services provided to injured workers, and to develop electronic billings to the bureau. (1) The MCO shall retain records relating to a claim so long as the industrial co...

...(A) Pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 4121.441 of the Revised Code, this rule shall provide procedures for an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process for medical disputes between an employer, an injured worker, or a provider and an MCO arising from the MCO's decision regarding a medical treatment reimbursement request (on form C-9 or equivalent). An injured worker or employer must exhaus...

...(A) Pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 4121.441 of the Revised Code, this rule provides procedures for an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process for medical disputes between an employer, an injured worker, or a provider and an MCO arising from the MCO's decision regarding a medical treatment reimbursement request (on form C-9 or equivalent). An injured worker or employer must exhaust the...

...(A) Pursuant to division (L) of section 4121.44 of the Revised Code and division (A)(1)(f) of section 4121.441 of the Revised Code, the administrator shall require employees, employers, providers, MCOs, and plans that participate in the workers' compensation system to report data to be used by the administrator to: (1) Measure and perform comparison analyses of costs, quality, appropriateness of ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in rule 4123-6-21.6 of the Administrative Code, medication must be for the treatment of a work related injury or occupational disease in a claim either allowed by an order of the bureau or the industrial commission, or recognized by a self-insuring employer. The bureau may deny a drug or therapeutic class of drugs as not being reasonably related to or medically nec...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in rule 4123-6-21.6 of the Administrative Code, medication must be for the treatment of a work related injury or occupational disease in a claim either allowed by an order of the bureau or the industrial commission, or recognized by a self-insuring employer. The bureau may deny a drug or therapeutic class of drugs as not being reasonably related to or medically nec...

...(A) Medication must be for treatment of a work related injury or occupational disease in a claim either allowed by an order of the bureau or the industrial commission, or recognized by a self-insuring employer. (B) Medication may be prescribed by any treating provider authorized by law to prescribe such medication. (C) Drugs covered in self-insuring employer claims are limited to those that are ...

...The bureau, or a self-insuring employer with a point-of-service adjudication system, may establish a coordinated services program (CSP) that requires an injured worker to obtain prescription medications reimbursed by the bureau or self-insuring employer from a single designated pharmacy and/or prescriber. (A) Placement in a CSP. (1) The bureau or self-insuring employer with a point-of-service adjudication system ma...

...The bureau, or a self-insuring employer with a point-of-service adjudication system, may establish a coordinated services program (CSP) that requires an injured worker to obtain prescription medications reimbursed by the bureau or self-insuring employer from a single designated pharmacy and/or prescriber. (A) Placement in a CSP. (1) The bureau or self-insuring employer with a point-of-service adjudicati...

...This rule governs the bureau's reimbursement of opioid prescriptions used to treat acute, subacute, and chronic pain in a work related injury or occupational disease. (A) Definitions. For purposes of this rule: (1) "Acute pain," "chronic pain," "morphine equivalent dose (MED)," and "subacute pain" have the same meanings as defined in rule 4731-11-01 of the Administrative Code. (2) "OARRS" mea...

...(A) When the claimant or any other person making payment on behalf of the claimant, including a volunteer, pays for medical services or supplies directly to a health care provider and the claim or condition is subsequently allowed, the payor shall be reimbursed upon submission of evidence of the receipt and payment for that service or supply. Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (A)(1) and (A)(2) of this rule, ...

...(A) When the claimant or any other person making payment on behalf of the claimant, including a volunteer, pays for medical services or supplies directly to a health care provider and the medical services or supplies meet the criteria in paragraph (B) of rule 4123-6-16.2 of the Administrative Code, the payor shall be reimbursed upon submission of evidence of the receipt and payment for that medica...

...(A) "Physical medicine" is the evaluation and treatment of a claimant by physical measures and the use of rehabilitative procedures, with or without assistive devices, for the purpose of preventing, correcting, or alleviating any work related disability. Physical medicine includes the establishment and modification of physical rehabilitation programs, treatment planning, instruction, and consultative services. "Physi...

...(A) "Physical medicine" is the evaluation and treatment of an injured worker by physical measures and the use of rehabilitative procedures, with or without assistive devices, for the purpose of preventing, correcting, or alleviating any work related disability. Physical medicine includes the establishment and modification of physical rehabilitation programs, treatment planning, instruction, and co...

...(A) Acupuncture. (1) Acupuncture is a recognized method of treatment in Ohio and must be administered by a licensed doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery, or doctor of podiatric medicine who has completed a course of study in acupuncture under the administration of an approved college of medicine, college of osteopathic medicine and surgery, or college of podiatric medicine, doctor of chirop...

...(A) Acupuncture. (1) Acupuncture must be administered by a licensed doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery, or doctor of podiatric medicine a doctor of chiropractic who holds a certificate to practice acupuncture from the Ohio state chiropractic board, or a non-physician acupuncturist licensed pursuant to and practicing in compliance with Chapter 4762. of the Revised Code....