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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Dementia" includes Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder. (2) "Serious mental illness" means "serious mental illness," as defined by the United States department of health and human services in regulations adopted under section 1919(e)(7)(G)(i) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396r(e)(7)(G)(i). (3) "Individual with a mental illness" means an individual who has a se...

...An individual who applies for admission to or resides in a nursing facility may appeal if adversely affected by a determination made by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.40 of the Revised Code or by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.021 of the Revised Code. If the individual is an applicant for or recipient of medicaid, the individual may app...

... department of medicaid may enter into contracts in the form of interagency agreements with one or more other state agencies to perform the assessments required under this section. The interagency agreements shall specify the responsibilities of each agency in the performance of the assessments.

...Subject to section 5165.072 of the Revised Code, an operator is eligible to enter into and retain a provider agreement for a nursing facility if all of the following apply: (A) The nursing facility is certified by the director of health for participation in medicaid; (B) The nursing facility is licensed by the director of health as a nursing home if so required by law and the operator is the licensed operator of...

...(A) Except as provided in section 5165.072 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall enter into a provider agreement with a nursing facility operator who applies, and is eligible, for the provider agreement. (B) A provider agreement shall require the department to make medicaid payments to the provider in accordance with this chapter for nursing facility services the nursing facility provides to it...

...A nursing facility operator may enter into provider agreements for more than one nursing facility.

...The department of medicaid shall not revalidate a nursing facility provider agreement if the provider fails to maintain eligibility for the provider agreement as provided in section 5165.06 of the Revised Code.

...The department of medicaid shall terminate the provider agreement with a nursing facility provider that does not comply with the requirements of section 3721.071 of the Revised Code for the installation of fire extinguishing and fire alarm systems.

...(A) As used in this section: "Bed need" means the number of long-term care beds a county needs as determined by the director of health pursuant to division (B)(3) of section 3702.593 of the Revised Code. "Bed need excess" means that a county's bed need is such that one or more long-term care beds may be relocated from the county according to the director's determination of the county's bed need. (B) Every provider...

...A nursing facility resident has a cause of action against a nursing facility provider for breach of the provider agreement obligations or other duties imposed by section 5165.08 of the Revised Code. The action may be commenced by the resident, or on the resident's behalf by the resident's sponsor or a residents' rights advocate, by the filing of a civil action in the court of common pleas of the county in which...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the operator of a nursing facility that elects to have the nursing facility participate in the medicaid program shall qualify all of the nursing facility's medicaid-certified beds in the medicare program. The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code to establish the time frame in which a nursing facility must comply with ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, each nursing facility provider shall file with the department of medicaid an annual cost report for each of the provider's nursing facilities that participate in the medicaid program. The cost report for a year shall cover the calendar year or the portion of the calendar year during which the nursing facility participated in the medicaid program. Except as...

...A nursing facility provider filing the nursing facility's cost report with the department of medicaid under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code shall report as a nonreimbursable expense the cost of the nursing facility's franchise permit fee.

...No nursing facility provider shall report fines paid under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 or section 5165.99 of the Revised Code in a cost report filed under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code.

...Cost reports shall be completed using the form prescribed under section 5165.104 of the Revised Code and in accordance with the guidelines established under that section.

...The department of medicaid shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe the form to be used for completing a cost report and a uniform chart of accounts for the purpose of reporting costs on the form; (B) Distribute a paper copy of the form, or computer software for electronic submission of the form, to each provider at least sixty days before the date the cost report is due; (C) Establish guidelines for com...

...The department of medicaid shall develop an addendum to the cost report form that a nursing facility provider may use to set forth costs that the provider believes the department may dispute. The department may consider such costs in determining a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate. If the department does not consider such costs in determining a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate, the provider may s...

...If a nursing facility provider required by section 5165.10 of the Revised Code to file a cost report for the nursing facility fails to file the cost report by the date it is due or the date, if any, to which the due date is extended pursuant to division (D) of that section, or files an incomplete or inadequate report for the nursing facility under that section, the department of medicaid shall provide immediate writt...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and not later than three years after a nursing facility provider files a cost report with the department of medicaid under section 5165.10 of the Revised Code, the provider may amend the cost report if the provider discovers a material error in the cost report or additional information to be included in the cost report. The department shall review the amend...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall conduct a desk review of each cost report it receives under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code. Based on the desk review, the department shall make a preliminary determination of whether the reported costs are allowable costs. The department shall notify each nursing facility provider of whether any of the reported costs are preliminarily determined not to be al...

...(A) The department of medicaid may conduct an audit, as defined in rules adopted under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code, of any cost report filed under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code. The decision whether to conduct an audit and the scope of the audit, which may be a desk or field audit, may be determined based on prior performance of the provider, a risk analysis, or other evidence that gives the...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of medicaid shall fine the provider of a nursing facility if the report of an audit conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code regarding a cost report for the nursing facility includes either of the following: (1) Adverse findings that exceed three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report; (2) Adverse f...

...Except as otherwise provided by sections 5165.151 to 5165.158 and 5165.34 of the Revised Code, the total per medicaid day payment rate that the department of medicaid shall pay a nursing facility provider for nursing facility services the provider's nursing facility provides during a state fiscal year shall be determined as follows: (A) Determine the sum of all of the following: (1) The per medicaid day payment...

...(A) The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be the initial rate for nursing facility services provided by a new nursing facility. Instead, the initial total per medicaid day payment rate for nursing facility services provided by a new nursing facility shall be determined in the following manner: (1) The initial rate for ancillary and support costs shal...

...The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5165.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for nursing facility services provided to low case-mix residents. Instead, the total rate for such nursing facility services shall be one hundred fifteen dollars per medicaid day.

...(A) For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day indirect care costs component rate. An ICF/IID's rate shall be the lesser of the individual rate determined under division (B) of this section and the maximum rate determined for the ICF/IID's peer group under division (C) of this section. (B) An ICF/IID's individual rate is the sum of the followin...

...For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day other protected costs component rate. An ICF/IID's rate shall be the ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable, per diem other protected costs from the applicable cost report year, adjusted for inflation using the following: (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the consumer price index for all...

...(A) For fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine in accordance with division (C) of this section a per medicaid day quality incentive payment for each ICF/IID that earns for the fiscal year at least one point under division (B) of this section. (B) Each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2022, the department, in accordance with rules authoriz...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities may pay a medicaid rate add-on to an ICF/IID provider for outlier ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides to qualifying ventilator-dependent residents on or after September 29, 2013, if the provider applies to the department of developmental disabilities to receive the rate add-on and the department approves the application. The d...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities may pay a medicaid rate add-on to an ICF/IID provider for outlier ICF/IID services the ICF/IID provides to residents identified as needing intensive behavioral support services, if the provider applies to the department to receive the rate add-on and the department approves the application. The department may approve a provider'...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 5124.30 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities, in determining whether an ICF/IID's direct care costs and indirect care costs are allowable, shall place no limit on specific categories of reasonable costs other than compensation of owners, compensation of relatives of owners, and compensation of administrators. Compensation cost limits for owners an...

...Except as provided in section 5124.17 of the Revised Code, the costs of goods, services, and facilities, furnished to an ICF/IID provider by a related party are includable in the allowable costs of the provider at the reasonable cost to the related party.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall adjust medicaid payment rates determined under this chapter to account for reasonable additional costs that must be incurred by ICFs/IID to comply with requirements of federal or state statutes, rules, or policies enacted or amended after January 1, 1992, or with orders issued by state or local fire authorities.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall not reduce an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter on the basis that the provider charges a lower rate to any resident who is not eligible for medicaid.

...No medicaid payment shall be made to an ICF/IID provider for the day a medicaid recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID, unless the recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID because all of the beds in the ICF/IID are converted from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services pursuant to section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "participation in therapeutic programs" includes visits to potential new residential settings. (B) The department of developmental disabilities shall pay an ICF/IID provider one hundred per cent of the total per medicaid day payment rate determined for the ICF/IID under this chapter to reserve a bed for a resident who is a medicaid recipient if all of the following apply: (1) The recipi...

...Medicaid payments may be made for ICF/IID services provided not later than thirty days after the effective date of an involuntary termination of the ICF/IID that provides the services if the services are provided to a medicaid recipient who is eligible for the services and resided in the ICF/IID before the effective date of the involuntary termination.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall make its best efforts each year to determine ICFs/IID's medicaid payment rates under this chapter in time to pay the rates by August fifteenth of each fiscal year. If the department is unable to calculate the rates so that they can be paid by that date, the department shall pay each provider the rate calculated for the provider's ICFs/IID under those sections a...

...(A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish a process under which an ICF/IID provider, or a group or association of ICF/IID providers, may seek reconsideration of medicaid payment rates established under this chapter. Except as provided in divisions (B) to (E) of this section, the only issue that a provider, group, or association may raise in the rate reconsideration is whether the rate was calcula...

...If an ICF/IID provider properly amends a cost report for an ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Code and the amended report shows that the provider received a lower medicaid payment rate under the original cost report than the provider was entitled to receive, the department of developmental disabilities shall adjust the provider's rate for the ICF/IID prospectively to reflect the corrected information. The...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall redetermine a provider's medicaid payment rate for an ICF/IID using revised information if either of the following results in a determination that the provider received a higher medicaid payment rate for the ICF/IID than the provider was entitled to receive: (1) The provider properly amends a cost report for the ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Cod...

...In addition to the other penalties authorized by this chapter, the department of developmental disabilities may impose the following penalties on an ICF/IID provider: (A) If the provider does not furnish invoices or other documentation that the department requests during an audit within sixty days after the request, a fine of not more than the greater of the following: (1) One thousand dollars per audit; (2)...

...5, "selected interest rates," a weekly publication of the federal reserve board, or any successor publication. If statistical release H.15, or its successor, ceases to contain the bank prime rate information or ceases to be published, the department shall request a written statement of the average bank prime rate from the federal reserve bank of Cleveland or the federal reserve board.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall deduct the following from the next available medicaid payment the department makes to an ICF/IID provider who continues to participate in medicaid: (1) Any amount the provider is required to refund, and any interest charged, under section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (2) The amount of any penalty imposed...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall transmit to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general revenue fund amounts collected from the following: (A) Refunds required by, and interest charged under, section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (B) Penalties imposed under section 5124.42 of the Revised Code.

...All of the following are subject to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (A) Any audit disallowance that the department of developmental disabilities makes as the result of an audit under section 5124.109 of the Revised Code; (B) Any medicaid payment deemed an overpayment under section 5124.523 of the Revised Code; (C) Any penalty the department imposes under section 51...

...An exiting operator or owner of an ICF/IID participating in the medicaid program shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a facility closure or voluntary termination not less than ninety days before the effective date of the facility closure or voluntary termination. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilitie...

...(A) An exiting operator or owner and entering operator shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a change of operator if the ICF/IID participates in the medicaid program and the entering operator seeks to continue the ICF/IID's participation. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medic...

...The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the effective date of the change of operator if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code on or before the date required by that section. (B) The department receives both ...

...(A) The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the date determined under division (B) of this section if all of the following are the case: (1) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code. (2) The department receives, from the entering operator and in accordance ...