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...(A) An employee of the state, of any political subdivision of the state, or of any institution supported in whole or in part by the state, may authorize the deduction from the employee's salary or wages of the amount of the employee's premium rate to any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority pursuant to this chapter. The employee's authorization shall be evidenced by approval of the head of ...

...Each health insuring corporation subject to this chapter may accept from governmental agencies, or from private persons, payments covering all or part of the cost of policies, contracts, and agreements entered into between the health insuring corporation and its subscribers or groups of subscribers.

...f there are changes to federal or state laws or federal regulatory guidance or compliance information prescribing that the drug in question is no longer approved or safe for the intended purpose. (e) A twelve-month approval provided under division (B)(6)(a) of this section does not apply to and is not required for any of the following: (i) Medications that are prescribed for a non-maintenance condition; (ii) Medic...

...Each health insuring corporation providing basic health care services shall implement a quality assurance program for use in connection with those policies, contracts, and agreements providing basic health care services. Each health insuring corporation required to implement a quality assurance program shall annually file a certificate with the superintendent of insurance certifying that its quality assurance progra...

...(A) To implement a quality assurance program required by section 1751.73 of the Revised Code, a health insuring corporation shall do both of the following: (1) Develop and maintain the appropriate infrastructure and disclosure systems necessary to measure and report, on a regular basis, the quality of health care services provided to enrollees, based on a systematic collection, analysis, and reporting of relevant d...

...A health insuring corporation may present evidence of compliance with the requirements of sections 1751.73 and 1751.74 of the Revised Code by submitting certification to the superintendent of insurance of its accreditation by an independent, private accrediting organization, such as the national committee on quality assurance, the national quality health council, the joint commission on accreditation of health care o...

...required pursuant to applicable federal law or regulations: (A) "Adverse determination" means a determination by a health insuring corporation or its designee utilization review organization that an admission, availability of care, continued stay, or other health care service has been reviewed and, based upon the information provided, the health care service does not meet the requirements for benefit payment under ...

...(A)(1) Sections 1751.77 to 1751.87 and Chapter 3922. of the Revised Code apply to any health insuring corporation that provides or performs utilization review services in connection with its policies, contracts, and agreements covering basic health care services and to any designee of the health insuring corporation, or to any utilization review organization that performs utilization review functions on behalf ...

...A health insuring corporation that conducts utilization review shall prepare a written utilization review program that describes all review activities, both delegated and nondelegated, for covered health care services provided, including the following: (A) Procedures to evaluate the clinical necessity, appropriateness, efficacy, or efficiency of health care services; (B) The use of data sources and clinical review ...

...The utilization review program of a health insuring corporation shall be implemented in accordance with all of the following: (A) The program shall use documented clinical review criteria that are based on sound clinical evidence and are evaluated periodically to assure ongoing efficacy. A health insuring corporation may develop its own clinical review criteria or may purchase or license such criteria from qualified...

...(A) As used in this section, "necessary information" includes the results of any face-to-face clinical evaluation or second opinion that may be required (B) A health insuring corporation shall maintain written procedures for determining whether a requested service is a service covered under the terms of an enrollee's policy, contract, or agreement, making utilization review determinations, and notifying enrollees, p...

...In lieu of conducting a prospective, concurrent, or retrospective review under section 1751.81 of the Revised Code, providing a reconsideration under section 1751.82 of the Revised Code, or conducting an internal review under section 1751.83 of the Revised Code, a health insuring corporation may afford an enrollee an opportunity for an external review under section 3922.08 or 3922.10 of the Revised Code. If an ...

...(A) In a case involving a prospective determination or a concurrent review determination, a health insuring corporation shall give the provider or health care facility rendering the health care service an opportunity to request in writing on behalf of the enrollee a reconsideration of an adverse determination by the reviewer making the adverse determination. The provider or health care facility may not request a reco...

...A health insuring corporation may present evidence of compliance with the requirements of sections 1751.77 to 1751.82 of the Revised Code by submitting evidence to the superintendent of insurance of its accreditation by an independent, private accrediting organization, such as the national committee on quality assurance, the national quality health council, the joint commission on accreditation of health care organiz...

...Each participating provider or health care facility submitting a claim shall cooperate with the utilization review program of a health insuring corporation or utilization review organization and shall provide the health insuring corporation or its designee access to an enrollee's medical records during regular business hours, or copies of those records at a reasonable cost.

...A health insuring corporation shall annually file a certificate with the superintendent of insurance certifying its compliance with sections 1751.77 to 1751.82 of the Revised Code.

...nce with applicable preemptive federal laws or regulations. The response shall state the reason for the health insuring corporation's decision, inform the enrollee of the right to pursue a further review, and explain the procedures for initiating the review, including the time frames within which the enrollee must request the review, as specified in section 3922.02 of the Revised Code. Failure by a health insur...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, each individual and group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement providing basic health care services that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state shall provide coverage for the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorder. A health insuring corporation shall not terminate an individual's coverage, or r...

...(A) As used in this section, "covered dental services," "covered vision services," "dental care provider," "vision care materials," and "vision care provider" have the same meanings as in section 3963.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A health insuring corporation shall provide the information required in this division to all enrollees receiving coverage under an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, co...

...(A) No health insuring corporation shall fail to comply with sections 1751.77 to 1751.82 of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is deemed to have engaged in an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance under sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code.

...Nothing in sections 1751.77 to 1751.83 of the Revised Code shall be construed to create a cause of action against an employer that provides health care benefits to employees through a health insuring corporation.

...Sections 1751.77 to 1751.83 of the Revised Code do not apply to either of the following: (A) Coverage provided to beneficiaries enrolled in the medicare+choice program operated under Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended; (B) Coverage provided to medicaid recipients; (C) Coverage provided to participants of the children's buy-in program.

...(A) As used in this section, "teledentistry" has the same meaning as in section 4715.43 of the Revised Code. (B) No individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement shall deny coverage for the costs of any services provided to an insured through teledentistry if those services would be covered if the services were delivered other than through teledentistry. (C) The coverage that may ...

...A health insuring corporation may provide payment or reimbursement to a pharmacist for providing a health care service to a patient if both of the following are the case: (A) The pharmacist provided the health care service to the patient in accordance with Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code, including any of the following services: (1) Managing drug therapy under a consult agreement pursuant to section 4729.39 of ...

...Each health insuring corporation shall comply with the requirements of section 3959.20 of the Revised Code as they pertain to health plan issuers. As used in this section, "health plan issuer" has the same meaning as in section 3922.01 of the Revised Code.