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..., as applicable: (1) A description of each hospital item or service provided by the hospital; (2) The following charges, expressed in dollar amounts, for each particular hospital item or service when provided in either an inpatient setting or an outpatient department setting, as applicable: (a) The gross charge; (b) The de-identified minimum negotiated charge; (c) The de-identified maximum negotiated charge...

...owing: (1) The list shall include at least three hundred shoppable services, unless the hospital provides fewer than three hundred shoppable services, in which case the list shall include the number of shoppable services that the hospital provides. (2) Of the shoppabale services selected for purposes of division (A)(1) of this section, the list shall include the seventy services specified as shoppable services by...

...Each time a hospital updates a list or internet-based price estimator tool as required under sections 3727.33 and 3727.34 of the Revised Code, the hospital shall submit the updated list or a description of the updates to the internet-based price estimator tool to the director of health. The director shall prescribe the form in which the updated list or description is to be submitted.

...he Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall monitor each hospital's compliance with division (A) of this section. The monitoring may occur by any of the following methods: (1) Reviewing any credible analysis prepared regarding compliance or noncompliance by hospitals; (2) Auditing the internet web sites of hospitals for compliance; (3) Confirming that each hospital submits updated lists as required by s...

...(A) If the director of health determines that a hospital has violated division (A) of section 3727.36 of the Revised Code, the director shall issue a notice of violation to the hospital. The director shall clearly explain in the notice the manner in which the hospital is not in compliance. When a notice of violation is issued, the director shall require the hospital to submit a corrective action plan to the directo...

...n of the Revised Code, the director of health shall impose an administrative penalty on a hospital if the hospital does both of the following: (a) Violates division (A) of section 3727.36 of the Revised Code; (b) Violates division (D) of section 3727.37 of the Revised Code. (2) Each day a violation continues is considered a separate violation. (B) In imposing an administrative penalty under this section, the ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the hospital price transparency fund, consisting of administrative penalties collected under section 3727.38 of the Revised Code. The director of health shall administer the fund. The amounts deposited shall be used for purposes of administering and enforcing sections 3727.31 to 3727.40 of the Revised Code, except that the director may use a portion for purposes of inform...

...The director of health shall prepare reports and submit them in accordance with all of the following: (A) On an annual basis, the director shall prepare a report on hospitals that are in violation of division (A) of section 3727.36 or division (D) of section 3727.37 of the Revised Code. (B) Within sixty days after any change to the federal price transparency law, the director shall prepare a report of the direct...

...The director of health may adopt rules to carry out the purposes of sections 3727.31 to 3727.40 of the Revised Code. All rules adopted pursuant to this section shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...dicine and surgery. (5) "Primary care services" means professional comprehensive personal health services, which may include health education and disease prevention, treatment of uncomplicated health problems, diagnosis of chronic health problems, and management of health care services for an individual. "Primary care services" does not include imaging services or diagnostic testing performed in a primary care sett...

... all claims for payment for health care services or goods. (D) The director of health may apply to the court of common pleas of the county in which a freestanding emergency department is located for a temporary or permanent injunction restraining the freestanding emergency department from failure to comply with this section.

...ed Code: (A) "Direct patient care" means care provided by a nurse with direct responsibility to carry out medical regimens or nursing care for one or more patients. (B) "Inpatient care unit" means a hospital unit, including an operating room or other inpatient care area, in which nursing care is provided to patients who have been admitted to the hospital. (C) "Nurse" means a person who is ...

...esentation of all types of nursing care services provided in the hospital. (B) The committee member who is the hospital's chief nursing officer shall establish a mechanism for obtaining input from nurses in all inpatient care units who provide direct patient care regarding what the nursing services staffing plan recommendations described in division (B) of section 3727.52 of the Revised Code should ...

...luate the hospital's current nursing services staffing plan; (B) Recommend a nursing services staffing plan that is, at a minimum, consistent with current standards established by private accreditation organizations or governmental entities and addresses all of the following: (1) The selection, implementation, and evaluation of minimum staffing levels for all inpatient care units that ensure ...

...evidence-based written nursing services staffing plan guiding the assignment of nurses hospital-wide. The staffing plan shall be implemented not later than ninety days after the hospital-wide nursing care committee is convened pursuant to section 3727.51 of the Revised Code, except that if the hospital's next fiscal year starts not later than one hundred eighty days after t...

... following: (1) Review how the nursing services staffing plan in effect at the time of the review does all of the following: (a) Affects inpatient care outcomes; (b) Affects clinical management; (c) Facilitates a delivery system that provides, on a cost-effective basis, quality nursing care consistent with acceptable and prevailing standards of safe nursing care and evidence-based guidelines established by nation...

... nursing services staffing plan created under section 3727.53 of the Revised Code for each inpatient care unit.

...f its nursing services staffing plan created under section 3727.53 of the Revised Code, in accordance with both of the following: (1) Free of charge, a copy of the staffing plan and subsequent changes to the plan shall be provided to each member of the hospital's nursing staff. (2) For a fee not to exceed actual copying costs, a copy of the staffing plan shall be provided to any person who requests it. (B) I...

...Nothing in sections 3727.50 to 3727.56 of the Revised Code shall be construed to limit, alter, or modify any of the terms, conditions, or provisions of a collective bargaining agreement entered into by a hospital.

...latory surgical facility" has the same meaning as in section 3702.30 of the Revised Code. (2) "Nontherapeutic abortion" has the same meaning as in section 9.04 of the Revised Code. (3) "Political subdivision" means any body corporate and politic that is responsible for governmental activities in a geographic area smaller than the state. (4) "Public hospital" means a hospital registered with the department of ...

...of the Revised Code: (A) "Admission" means a patient's admission to a hospital on an inpatient basis by a health care professional specified in division (B)(1) of section 3727.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "After-care" means assistance provided by a lay caregiver to a patient in the patient's residence after the patient's discharge and includes only the caregiving needs of the patient at the time of discharge. (C...

...(A) In the case of a patient who is at least fifty-five years of age and not unconscious or otherwise incapacitated at the time of admission, a hospital shall offer the patient or the patient's guardian an opportunity to designate a lay caregiver for the patient. The offer shall be made after the patient's admission and before the patient's discharge. (B) In the case of a patient who is at least fifty-five years of...

...(A) If a patient or guardian makes a lay caregiver designation, the hospital shall do both of the following: (1) To the extent the information is available, record in the patient's medical record the lay caregiver's name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address, and relationship to the patient; (2) Request from the patient or guardian consent to disclose the patient's medical information to the lay car...

...A patient or guardian may revoke a lay caregiver designation at any time before the patient's discharge by communicating that intent to hospital staff. After revocation, a new lay caregiver designation may be completed in accordance with section 3727.71 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a hospital that intends to discharge a patient, or transfer a patient to another hospital or facility, shall notify the patient's lay caregiver of that intent as soon as practicable. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply if the patient or guardian has not given the consent described in division (A)(2) of section 3727.72 of the Revised Code.