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...(A) The medicaid director may do all of the following as necessary for the department of medicaid to fulfill the duties it has, as the single state agency for the medicaid program, under the "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003" Pub. L. No. 108-173: (1) Adopt rules in accordance with division (B) of this section; (2) Assign duties to county departments of job and family ser...

...As used in this section, "state agency" has the same meaning as in section 9.23 of the Revised Code. No provision of Title LI of the Revised Code or any other law of this state that incorporates any provision of federal medicaid law, or that may be construed as requiring the state, a state agency, or any state official or employee to comply with that federal provision, shall be construed as creating a cause of...

...The medicaid program shall be implemented in accordance with all of the following: (A) The medicaid state plan approved by the United States secretary of health and human services, including amendments to the plan approved by the United States secretary; (B) Federal medicaid waivers granted by the United States secretary, including amendments to waivers approved by the United States secretary; (C) Other type...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other state statute except for section 5164.061 of the Revised Code, no component, or aspect of a component, of the medicaid program shall be implemented without all of the following: (1) Subject to division (B) of this section, if the component, or aspect of the component, requires federal approval, receipt of the federal approval; (2) Sufficient federal financial participation for the co...

...The medicaid director shall seek federal approval for all components, and aspects of components, of the medicaid program for which federal approval is needed, except that the director is permitted rather than required to seek federal approval for components, and aspects of components, that state statutes permit rather than require be implemented. Federal approval shall be sought in the following forms as approp...

...The medicaid director may conduct reviews of the medicaid program. The reviews may include physical inspections of records and sites where medicaid services are provided and interviews of medicaid providers and medicaid recipients. If the director determines pursuant to a review that a person or government entity has violated a rule governing the medicaid program, the director may establish a corrective action ...

...o link the data sets of all agencies serving medicaid recipients. The assessment of the data system shall include functions related to fraud and abuse detection, program management and budgeting, and performance measurement capabilities of all agencies serving medicaid recipients, including the departments of aging, health, job and family services, medicaid, mental health and addiction services, children and youth...

...(A) The medicaid director shall enter into a contract with one or more persons to receive and process, on the director's behalf, requests for medicaid recipient or claims payment data, data from reports of audits conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code, or extracts or analyses of any of the foregoing data made by persons who intend to use the items prepared pursuant to the requests for commercial or acad...

... shall make the report available to the public. (C) The department shall provide to the joint medicaid oversight committee a copy of the data used to calculate the information required in the report under division (A)(16) of this section.

...ort also shall be made available to the public on request.

...Not less than once each year, the medicaid director shall submit a report on the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program to the governor, general assembly, and joint medicaid oversight committee. The copy to the general assembly shall be submitted in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. The report shall include all of the following information: (A) The number of individuals who pa...

... shall make the report available to the public.

...(A) As used in this section, "stillbirth" has the same meaning as in section 5180.12 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of medicaid shall create an infant mortality scorecard. The scorecard shall report all of the following: (1) The performance of the fee-for-service component of medicaid and each medicaid managed care organization on population health measures, including the infant mortality rate, preterm...

... The progress that has been made on removing the access barriers described in division (A) of this section and the impact such progress has had on reducing the infant mortality rate in this state; (b) A performance analysis of the fee-for-service component of medicaid and each medicaid managed care organization on health metrics pertaining to tobacco cessation, prematurity prevention, and birth spacing; (c) Any oth...

...ment of medicaid shall conduct a cost savings study of the medicaid program and prepare a report based on that study recommending measures to reduce costs under that program. The department shall submit its report to the governor.

...d health insurance coverage; (2) Improving health conditions that would otherwise prevent or inhibit stable employment; (3) Improving the conditions of their employment, including duration and hours of employment. (B) For the purpose of aiding the department's evaluations under this section, medicaid managed care organizations shall collect and submit to the department relevant data about members of the expansi...

...n dollars shall, as a condition of receiving such payments, do all of the following not later than the first day of the succeeding calendar year: (1) Establish written policies for all of the entity's employees, contractors, and agents that provide detailed information about the role of all of the following in preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in federal health care programs: (a) Federal false ...

...A government entity that administers one or more components of the medicaid program and has reasonable cause to believe that an instance of fraud, waste, or abuse has occurred in the medicaid program shall inform the department of medicaid. The department shall collect the information in the medicaid data warehouse system established under section 5162.11 of the Revised Code.

...e copayment, the prohibition against waiving copayments specified in division (C) of this section does not apply. (G) The department of medicaid may collaborate with a state agency that is administering, pursuant to a contract entered into under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code, one or more components, or one or more aspects of a component, of the medicaid program as necessary for the state agency to apply the c...

...in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust, or other arrangement. (2) "Institution" means a nursing facility, ICF/IID, or a medical institution. (3) "Permanently institutionalized individual" means an individual to whom all of the following apply: (a) Is an inpatient in an institution; (b) Is required, as a condition of the medicaid program paying for the individual's services in the institution, to s...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 5162.23 of the Revised Code, no lien may be imposed against the property of an individual before the individual's death on account of medicaid services correctly paid or to be paid on the individual's behalf. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of medicaid may impose a lien against the real property of a medi...

...The department of medicaid shall certify amounts due under the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code to the attorney general pursuant to section 131.02 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may enter into a contract with any person or government entity to collect the amounts due on behalf of the attorney general. The attorney general, in entering into a cont...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Commissioner" means a person appointed by a probate court under division (E) of section 2113.03 of the Revised Code to act as a commissioner. (2) "Home" has the same meaning as in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code. (3) "Personal needs allowance account" means an account or petty cash fund that holds the money of a resident of a residential facility or home and that the fac...

...(A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5162.02 of the Revised Code permitting county departments of job and family services to take action to recover benefits incorrectly paid on behalf of medicaid recipients. The rules shall provide for recovery by the following methods: (1) Soliciting voluntary payments from recipients or from persons holding property in which a recipient has a legal or e...

...(A) As used in this section, "third party" has the same meaning as in section 5160.35 of the Revised Code. (B) In addition to the authority granted under section 5160.38 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may, to the extent necessary to reimburse its costs, garnish the wages, salary, or other employment income of, and withhold amounts from state tax refunds to, any person to whom both of the follo...