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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cost-sharing" means any cost-sharing requirements instituted for the medicaid program under section 5162.20 of the Revised Code. (2) "Medication synchronization" means a pharmacy service that synchronizes the filling or refilling of prescriptions in a manner that allows the dispensed drugs to be obtained on the same date each month. (3) "Prescriber" has the same meaning as in sect...

...(A) As used in sections 5164.7512 to 5164.7514 of the Revised Code: (1) "Clinical practice guidelines" means a systematically developed statement to assist providers and medicaid recipients in making decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances and conditions. (2) "Clinical review criteria" means the written screening procedures, decision abstracts, clinical protocols, and clinical ...

...(A) All of the following shall apply to the step therapy exemption process established and implemented by the department of medicaid pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 5164.7512 of the Revised Code: (1) The process shall be clear and convenient. (2) The process shall be easily accessible on the department's web site. (3) The process shall require that a medicaid provider initiate a step therapy exemption re...

...ay consider any of the following: (a) Publicly available information relevant to pricing the prescribed drug; (b) Information the department has that is relevant to the pricing of the drug; (c) Information relating to value-based pricing of the drug for medicaid recipients; (d) The seriousness and prevalence of the conditions for which the drug is prescribed; (e) The drug's volume of use among medicaid reci...

...(A) In rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code, the medicaid director shall modify the manner or establish a new manner in which the following are paid under medicaid: (1) Community mental health service providers or facilities for providing community mental health services covered by the medicaid program pursuant to section 5164.15 of the Revised Code; (2) Providers of alcohol and drug addict...

...Before the department of medicaid or department of mental health and addiction services updates medicaid billing codes or medicaid payment rates for community behavioral health services as part of the behavioral health redesign, the departments shall conduct a beta test of the updates. Any medicaid provider of community behavioral health services may volunteer to participate in the beta test. An update may not begin ...

...(A) The medicaid payment rates for the following neonatal and newborn services shall equal not less than seventy-five per cent of the medicare payment rates for the services in effect on the date the services are provided to medicaid recipients eligible for the services: (1) Initial care for normal newborns; (2) Subsequent day, hospital care for normal newborns; (3) Same day, initial history and physical exa...

...and any other federal law that requires public notice of proposed changes to payment rates for medicaid services, the medicaid director shall give public notice in the register of Ohio of any change to a method or standard used to determine the medicaid payment rate for a medicaid service.

...The department of medicaid shall not knowingly make a medicaid payment for a provider-preventable condition for which federal financial participation is prohibited by regulations adopted under the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," section 2702, 42 U.S.C. 1396b-1.

...(A) As used in this section, "cost-effective" and "group health plan" have the same meanings as in the "Social Security Act," section 1906, 42 U.S.C. 1396e, and any regulations adopted under that section. (B) The department of medicaid may implement a program pursuant to the "Social Security Act," section 1906, 42 U.S.C. 1396e, for the enrollment of medicaid-eligible individuals in group health plans when the...

...The medicaid director shall establish a qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program consistent with the definition of that term in the "Social Security Act," section 1917(b)(1)(C)(iii), 42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)(C)(iii). An individual participating in the program who is subject to the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code shall be eligible for the re...

...The medicaid director may implement within the medicaid program a system under which medicaid recipients with chronic conditions are provided with coordinated care through health homes, as authorized by the "Social Security Act," section 1945, 42 U.S.C. 1396w-4.

...The medicaid director, in consultation with the director of developmental disabilities, may develop and implement within the medicaid program a system under which eligible individuals with chronic conditions, as defined in the "Social Security Act," section 1945 (h)(1), 42 U.S.C. 1396w-4(h)(1), who also have developmental disabilities may receive health home services, as defined in the "Social Security Act," section ...

...The department of medicaid may require county departments of job and family services to provide case management of nonemergency transportation services provided under the medicaid program. County departments shall provide the case management if required by the department in accordance with rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code. The department shall determine, for the purposes of claiming fed...

...(A) As used in this section, "MFP demonstration project" means a money follows the person demonstration project that the United States secretary of health and human services is authorized to award under section 6071 of the "Deficit Reduction Act of 2005" (Pub. L. No. 109-171, as amended). (B) To the extent funds are available under an MFP demonstration project awarded to the department of medicaid, the direc...

...The medicaid director may implement a demonstration project called the integrated care delivery system to test and evaluate the integration of the care that dual eligible individuals receive under medicare and medicaid. No provision of Title LI of the Revised Code applies to the integrated care delivery system if that provision implements or incorporates a provision of federal law governing medicaid and that p...

...(A) If the medicaid director implements the integrated care delivery system and except as provided in division (C) of this section, the director shall annually evaluate all of the following: (1) The health outcomes of ICDS participants; (2) How changes to the administration of the ICDS affect all of the following: (a) Claims processing; (b) The appeals process; (c) The number of reassessments requested; (d...

...The medicaid director shall select from among universally accepted claim forms used in the United States a standardized claim form for each type of medicaid provider that provides medicaid services under the integrated care delivery system. The director shall create standardized claim codes to be used on the standardized claim forms. Each medicaid provider and medicaid provider's designee that bills for medicaid serv...

...(A)(1) In addition to any other eligibility requirement of this chapter, to be eligible to serve as a personal care aide under the integrated care delivery system, an individual must successfully complete thirty hours of pre-service training acceptable to the department of medicaid. To maintain eligibility, each personal care aide must successfully complete six hours of in-service training acceptable to the depart...

...As used in this section, "advanced diagnostic imaging services" means magnetic resonance imaging services, computed tomography services, positron emission tomography services, cardiac nuclear medicine services, and similar imaging services. The department of medicaid shall implement evidence-based, best practice guidelines or protocols and decision support tools for advanced diagnostic imaging services covere...

...(A) The department of medicaid may establish a program under which it provides incentive payments, as authorized by the "Social Security Act," section 1903(a)(3)(F) and (t), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(a)(3)(F) and (t), to encourage the adoption and use of electronic health record technology by medicaid providers who are identified under that federal law as eligible professionals. (B) After the department has made a deter...

...The medicaid director shall implement within the medicaid program a system that encourages medicaid providers to provide medicaid services to medicaid recipients in culturally and linguistically appropriate manners.

...(A) As used in this section, "telehealth service" means a health care service delivered to a patient through the use of interactive audio, video, or other telecommunications or electronic technology from a site other than the site where the patient is located. (B) The department of medicaid shall establish standards for medicaid payments for health care services the department determines are appropriate to be cove...

...As used in this section, "teledentistry" has the same meaning as in section 4715.43 of the Revised Code. The department of medicaid shall establish standards for medicaid payments for services provided through teledentistry. The standards shall provide coverage for services to the same extent that those services would be covered by the medicaid program if the services were provided without the use of teledentistry.

...ransportation service provider" means a public emergency medical service organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The medicaid director shall submit a medicaid state plan amendment to the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services seeking authorization to establish and administer a supplemental payment program to provide supplemental medicaid payments to eligible ground ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an exiting operator shall file with the department of medicaid a cost report not later than ninety days after the last day the exiting operator's provider agreement is in effect or, in the case of a voluntary withdrawal of participation, the effective date of the voluntary withdrawal of participation. The cost report shall cover the period that begins with...

...If an exiting operator required by section 5165.522 of the Revised Code to file a cost report with the department of medicaid fails to file the cost report in accordance with that section, all payments under the medicaid program for the period the cost report is required to cover are deemed overpayments until the date the department receives the properly completed cost report. The department may impose on the e...

...The department of medicaid may not provide an exiting operator final payment under the medicaid program until the department receives all properly completed cost reports the exiting operator is required to file under sections 5165.10 and 5165.522 of the Revised Code.

...The department of medicaid shall determine the actual amount of debt an exiting operator owes the department under the medicaid program by completing all final fiscal audits not already completed and performing all other appropriate actions the department determines to be necessary. The department shall issue an initial debt summary report on this matter not later than sixty days after the date the exiting operator f...

...The department of medicaid shall release the actual amount withheld under division (A) of section 5165.521 of the Revised Code, less any amount the exiting operator owes the department under the medicaid program, as follows: (A) Unless the department issues the initial debt summary report required by section 5165.525 of the Revised Code not later than sixty days after the date the exiting operator files the proper...

...The department of medicaid, at its sole discretion, may release the amount withheld under division (A) of section 5165.521 of the Revised Code if the exiting operator submits to the department written notice of a postponement of a change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of participation and the transactions leading to the change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary withdrawal of pa...

...(A) All amounts withheld under section 5165.521 of the Revised Code from payment due an exiting operator under the medicaid program shall be deposited into the medicaid payment withholding fund created by the controlling board pursuant to section 131.35 of the Revised Code. Money in the fund shall be used as follows: (1) To pay an exiting operator when a withholding is released to the exiting operator under sectio...

...ng documents, and fully executed sales contracts and any other supporting documents culminating in the change of operator; (C) The method by which the forms and documents identified in division (B) of this section are to be provided to the department.

...As used in this section, "a resident's rights" means the rights of a nursing facility resident under sections 3721.10 to 3721.17 of the Revised Code, the "Social Security Act," sections 1819(c) and 1919(c), 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3(c) and 1396r(c), and federal regulations issued under those sections of the "Social Security Act." As used in sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code: (A) "Certification requireme...

...The medicaid director may adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code that are consistent with regulations, guidelines, and procedures issued by the United States secretary of health and human services under the "Social Security Act," sections 1819 and 1919, 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3 and 1396r, and necessary for administration and enforcement of sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code. If the secretar...

...The department of medicaid is hereby authorized to enforce sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code. The department may enforce the sections directly or through contracting agencies. The department and agencies shall enforce the sections in accordance with the requirements of the "Social Security Act," sections 1819 and 1919, 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3 and 1396r, that apply to nursing facilities; with regulations...

... department of medicaid may enter into contracts with other state agencies pursuant to section 5162.35 of the Revised Code that authorize the agencies to perform all or part of the duties assigned to the department of medicaid under sections 5165.60 to 5165.89 of the Revised Code. Each contract shall specify the duties the agency is authorized to perform and the sections of the Revised Code under which the agen...

...(A) The department of health shall conduct a survey, titled a standard survey, of every nursing facility in this state on a statewide average of not more than once every twelve months. Each nursing facility shall undergo a standard survey at least once every fifteen months as a condition of meeting certification requirements. The department may extend a standard survey; such a survey is titled an extended surve...

...(A) A department of health survey team shall conclude each survey of a nursing facility not later than one business day after the survey team ceases to need to be on site at the facility for the survey. Not later than the day that the survey team concludes the survey, the survey team shall conduct an exit interview with the administrator or other person in charge of the facility and any other facility staff mem...

...(A) Except as provided in section 3721.17 of the Revised Code, a finding shall be cited only on the basis of a survey and a determination that one or more actions, practices, situations, or incidents at a nursing facility caused or resulted from the facility's failure to comply with one or more certification requirements. The department of health shall determine whether the actions, practices, situations, or in...

...The results of a survey of a nursing facility that is conducted under section 5165.64 of the Revised Code, including any statement of deficiencies and all findings and deficiencies cited in the statement on the basis of the survey, shall be used solely to determine the nursing facility's compliance with certification requirements or with this chapter or another chapter of the Revised Code. Those results of a survey, ...

...(A) Not later than ten days after an exit interview, including an exit interview at which a department of health survey team discloses a finding that immediate jeopardy exists, the department of health shall deliver to the nursing facility a detailed statement, titled a statement of deficiencies, setting forth all findings and deficiencies cited on the basis of the survey, including any finding cited pursuant t...

...scription of an ongoing monitoring and improvement process to be used at the facility that is focused on preventing any recurrence of the causes of the findings; (4) If the plan concerns a finding assigned a severity level indicating that a resident was harmed or immediate jeopardy exists, all of the following: (a) Detailed analyses of the facts and circumstances of the finding, including identification of its...

...The department of health may appoint employees of the department to conduct on-site monitoring of a nursing facility whenever a finding is cited, including any finding cited pursuant to division (E) of section 5165.66 of the Revised Code, or an emergency is found to exist. Appointment of monitors under this section is not subject to appeal under section 5165.87 or any other section of the Revised Code. No emplo...

...(A) If the department of health cites a deficiency or deficiencies that was not substantially corrected before a survey and that does not constitute a severity level four finding or create immediate jeopardy, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency shall permit the nursing facility to continue participating in the medicaid program for up to six months after the exit interview, if all of the following...

...(A) If the department of health cites a deficiency, or cluster of deficiencies, that was not substantially corrected before a survey and constitutes a severity level four finding, the department of medicaid or contracting agency shall, subject to sections 5165.79 to 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose a remedy for the deficiency or cluster of deficiencies. The department or agency may act under either division ...

...If the department of health cites a deficiency, or cluster of deficiencies, that was not substantially corrected before a survey and constitutes a severity level three and scope level three or four finding, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency may, subject to sections 5165.82 and 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose one or more of the following remedies: (A) Do either of the following: (1) Issue...

...(A) If the department of health cites a deficiency, or cluster of deficiencies, that was not substantially corrected before a survey and constitutes a severity level three and scope level two finding, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency may, subject to sections 5165.82 and 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose one or more of the following remedies: (1) Do either of the following: (a) Issue an ord...

...(A) In determining which remedies to impose under section 5165.72, 5165.73, or 5165.74 of the Revised Code, including whether a fine should be imposed, the department of medicaid or a contracting agency shall do both of the following: (1) Impose the remedies that are most likely to achieve correction of deficiencies, encourage sustained compliance with certification requirements, and protect the health, safety...

...At the time the department of medicaid or a contracting agency, under section 5165.71, 5165.72, or 5165.77 of the Revised Code, issues an order terminating a nursing facility's participation in the medicaid program, the department or agency may also impose a fine, in accordance with sections 5165.72 to 5165.74 and 5165.83 of the Revised Code, to be collected in the event the termination order does not take effe...