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... 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 services; (3) Make payments to the United States department of health and human services from appropriations made to the department of medicaid for this purpose. (B) Rules authorized...

...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 ...

...e department of administrative services contracts to assess the data system shall also assist the medicaid agencies in the definition of the requirements for an enhanced data system or a new data system and assist the department of administrative services in the preparation of a request for proposals to enhance or develop a data system. (B) Based on the assessment performed pursuant to division (A) of this section...

...section to pay obligations specified in contracts entered under this section. Any money remaining after the obligations are paid shall be deposited in the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code. (E) This section does not apply to requests for medicaid recipient or claims payment data, data from reports of audits conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revi...

... 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...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall conduct periodic reviews to determine the barriers that medicaid recipients face in gaining full access to interventions intended to reduce tobacco use, prevent prematurity, and promote optimal birth spacing. The first review shall occur not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. Thereafter, reviews shall be conducted every six months. The department shal...

...Annually, the department 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.

...(A) The department of medicaid shall periodically evaluate the success that members of the expansion eligibility group have with the following: (1) Obtaining employer-sponsored 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 ...

...(A) As used in this section; "Agent" and "contractor" include any agent, contractor, subcontractor, or other person who, on behalf of an entity, furnishes or authorizes the furnishing of medicaid services, performs billing or coding functions, or is involved in monitoring of health care that an entity provides. "Employee" includes any officer or employee (including management employees) of an entity. "Entity...

...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.

...(A) The department of medicaid shall institute cost-sharing requirements for the medicaid program. The department shall not institute cost-sharing requirements in a manner that does either of the following: (1) Disproportionately impacts the ability of medicaid recipients with chronic illnesses to obtain medically necessary medicaid services; (2) Violates section 5164.09 or 5164.10 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) N...

...(A) As used in this section and section 5162.211 of the Revised Code: (1) "Estate" includes both of the following: (a) All real and personal property and other assets to be administered under Title XXI of the Revised Code and property that would be administered under that title if not for section 2113.03 or 2113.031 of the Revised Code; (b) Any other real and personal property and other assets in which an in...

...(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...

...entity with which the attorney general contracts to be compensated from the property recovered under the medicaid estate recovery program or may provide for another manner of compensation agreed to by the parties to the contract. Regardless of whether the attorney general collects the amounts due under the medicaid estate recovery program or contracts with a person or government entity to collect the amounts d...

...(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...