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...The actual disbursements of the prevailing party for filing fees, execution fees, and other court fees may be allowed as costs. No other costs shall be allowed either party except by special order of the court. Costs allowed under this section may be apportioned between the parties, or waived, in whole or in part, as the court determines to be equitable.

...If at any time the court finds that an amount owing to the court is due and uncollectible, in whole or in part, the court may direct the clerk of the court to cancel all or part of the claim. The clerk shall then effect the cancellation.

...Except as inconsistent procedures are provided in this chapter or in rules of court adopted in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, all proceedings in the small claims division of a municipal court are subject to the Rules of Civil Procedure, and Chapter 1901. and sections 2307.06 and 2307.07 of the Revised Code, and all proceedings in the small claims division of a county court are subject to the Rules of Ci...

...A corporation which is a real party in interest in any action in a small claims division may commence such an action and appear therein through an attorney at law. Such a corporation may, through any bona fide officer or salaried employee, file and present its claim or defense in any action in a small claims division arising from a claim based on a contract to which the corporation is an original party or any other c...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, a prosecuting attorney of a county may designate any employee of a county department of job and family services to act as the prosecuting attorney's representative in the commencement and prosecution or defense of any action in the small claims division of a municipal or county court on behalf of the department. (2)(a) If the prosecuting attorney designates as the p...

...(A) A probate division of the court of common pleas shall be held at the county seat in each county in an office furnished by the board of county commissioners, in which the books, records, and papers pertaining to the probate division shall be deposited and safely kept by the probate judge. The board shall provide suitable equipment or other necessary items for the safekeeping and preservation of the books, re...

...Every six years, in each county having a separate judge of the probate division of the court of common pleas, one probate judge shall be elected who is qualified as required by section 2301.01 of the Revised Code. The probate judge shall hold office for six years, commencing on the ninth day of February next following the judge's election.

...There shall be one additional probate judge for the probate court of Cuyahoga County. The additional judge shall be elected at the general election to be held in 1954 and every six years thereafter, for a term of six years commencing on the first day of January next following the additional judge's election. The judge elected pursuant to this section shall comply with the qualifications provided for in sectio...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any other provision of the Revised Code, on and after February 9, 2003, the judge of the probate division of the court of common pleas of Marion county who is elected in 2002 pursuant to section 2101.02 of the Revised Code to fill the office of the judge of the probate division of the court of common pleas o...

...The judge of the court of common pleas of Erie county who is elected in 2008, and successors, is the successor to the judge of the probate division of that court whose term expires on February 8, 2009, shall be designated as a judge of the court of common pleas, general division, shall have all the powers relating to the general division of the court of common pleas of Erie county, shall be the clerk of the probate c...

...Effective January 2, 2005, the probate judge of the court of common pleas of Logan county shall have all the powers relating to the family court division of the court of common pleas of Logan county, as established pursuant to division (CC)(1) of section 2301.03 of the Revised Code, and shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the judge of the family court division of the court of common pleas of Logan county ov...

...Effective February 9, 2009, the probate judge of the court of common pleas of Champaign county shall have all the powers relating to the domestic relations-juvenile-probate division of the court of common pleas of Champaign county, as established pursuant to division (DD)(1) of section 2301.03 of the Revised Code, and shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the judges of the domestic relations-juvenile-prob...

...(A) The probate court of Franklin county may accept funds or other program assistance from, or charge fees for services described in division (B) of this section rendered to, individuals, corporations, agencies, or organizations, including, but not limited to, the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services of Franklin county or the Franklin county board of developmental disabilities. Any funds or fe...

...(A) From January 1, 2023, through February 8, 2027, the probate judge of the court of common pleas of Hardin county shall have all the powers relating to the general division of the court of common pleas of Hardin county, shall be the clerk of the probate court, and shall exercise jurisdiction over matters that are within the jurisdiction of the general division. (B) The judge of the court of common pleas of Hardin...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the discharge of official duties, the probate judge shall give a bond to the state in a sum not less than five thousand dollars. The bond shall have sufficient surety, shall be approved by the board of county commissioners or by the county auditor and county recorder in the absence from the county of two of the members of the boa...

...The judge or judges of the probate court shall make rules regulating the practice and conducting the business of the court, and the judge or judges shall submit those rules to the supreme court. In order to maintain regularity and uniformity in the proceedings of all the probate courts, the supreme court may alter and amend the rules submitted by the judge or judges of a probate court and make other rules.

...A probate judge may administer oaths, take acknowledgment of instruments in writing required to be acknowledged, and take depositions. Depositions taken according to sections 2319.05 to 2319.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be used on the trial of civil cases, may be taken and used on the trial of any question before the probate court.

...The probate judge, upon the motion of a party or the judge's own motion, may appoint a special master commissioner in any matter pending before the judge. The commissioner shall be an attorney at law and shall be sworn faithfully to discharge the commissioner's duties. When requested by the probate judge, the commissioner shall execute a bond to the state in the sum that the court directs, with surety approved ...

...A special master commissioner of the probate court may administer all oaths required in the discharge of the commissioner's duties, may summon and enforce the attendance of witnesses, may compel the production of books and papers, and may grant adjournments the same as the court, and, when the court directs, the commissioner shall require the witnesses severally to subscribe the witnesses' testimony. All proc...

...The probate judge may appoint court reporters and fix their compensation in the manner provided for the court of common pleas in sections 2301.18 to 2301.26 of the Revised Code.

...When required by the probate judge, sheriffs, coroners, and constables shall attend the judge's court and shall serve and return process directed and delivered to them by the judge. No officer of that type shall neglect or refuse to serve and return any process as required by this section. If an officer does neglect or refuse to serve and return process as required by this section, the judge shall issue a summo...

...No sheriff, coroner, or constable shall refuse to pay moneys collected by that officer to the probate judge or other person, when so directed by the judge. For refusal to pay over moneys collected, the officer shall be summoned as provided in section 2101.09 of the Revised Code and amerced for the use of the parties interested, in the amount required to be collected by the process, with ten per cent on the amou...

...The following records shall be kept by the probate court: (A) An administration docket, showing the grant of letters of administration or letters testamentary, the name of the decedent, the amount of bond and names of sureties in the bond, and the date of filing and a brief note of each order or proceeding relating to the estate with reference to the journal or other record in which the order or proceeding is found;...

...sess, and make readily available to the public, machines or equipment necessary for an examination of the records. The machines or equipment shall present the records in a format that is readable without difficulty. (C) If a probate court keeps records by record-keeping methods other than bound volumes of paper pages, it shall keep and maintain indices to the records that permit the records to be retrieved readily.

...When a probate judge, whether elected or appointed, enters upon the discharge of the judge's official duties, the judge shall make, in the books and other record-keeping materials of the judge's office, the proper records, entries, and indexes omitted by the judge's predecessors in office. When made, the entries shall have the same validity and effect as though they had been made at the proper time and by the ...

...(A) The medicaid director shall establish a system under which points are awarded in accordance with this section to healthy Ohio program debit swipe cards. One dollar of medicaid funds shall be deposited into a healthy Ohio program participant's buckeye account for each point awarded to the participant under this section. (B) The director shall provide a one-time award of twenty points to a healthy Ohio program par...

...(A) A healthy Ohio program participant's participation in the program shall cease if any of the following applies: (1) Unless the participant is pregnant, a monthly installment payment to the participant's buckeye account is sixty days late. (2) The participant fails to submit documentation needed for a redetermination of the participant's eligibility for medicaid before the sixty-first day after the documentation ...

...If a healthy Ohio program participant exhausts the annual or lifetime payout limits specified in division (D) of section 5166.401 of the Revised Code, the participant shall be transferred to the fee-for-service component of medicaid or the care management system. A participant who exhausts the annual payout limit for a year shall resume participation in the healthy Ohio program at the beginning of the immediately fol...

...(A) If a healthy Ohio program participant ceases to qualify for medicaid due to increased family countable income and purchases a health insurance policy or obtains health care coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored health plan, the amount remaining in the former participant's buckeye account shall be transferred to an account to be known as a bridge account. The amount so transferred may be used only to pay f...

...Each county department of job and family services shall offer to refer to a local board each healthy Ohio program participant who resides in the county served by the county department and is either unemployed or employed for less than an average of twenty hours per week. The referral shall include information about the workforce development activities available from the local board. A participant may refuse to accept...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) For the purpose of division (F)(1)(a) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code, establish requirements regarding preventative health services for healthy Ohio program participants. The requirements may differ for participants of different ages and genders. (B) For the purpose of division (G)(2) of sectio...

...(A) As used in this section, "medical assistance program" and "refugee medical assistance program" have the same meanings as in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director shall establish a medicaid waiver component to provide continuous medicaid enrollment for children from birth through three years of age. A child who is determined eligible for medical assistance under Title XIX of the "Social...

...described in section 340B(a)(4) of the "Public Health Service Act," 42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4) and includes any pharmacy under contract with the entity to dispense drugs on behalf of the entity. (B) "Affiliated company" means an entity, including a third-party payer or specialty pharmacy, with common ownership, members of a board of directors, or managers, or that is a parent company, subsidiary company, jointly held com...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...As part of the medicaid program, the department of medicaid shall establish a care management system. The department shall implement the system in some or all counties. The department shall designate the medicaid recipients who are required or permitted to participate in the care management system. Those who shall be required to participate in the system include medicaid recipients who receive cognitive behavioral ...

...re organization; (5) Establish quality improvement initiatives consistent with any state medicaid quality plan established by the department; (6) Establish transparency and consumer protection requirements for an entity recognized as a pediatric accountable care organization; (7) Establish a process for sharing data. (F) This section does not limit the authority of the department of insurance to regulate the ...

...The department of medicaid shall include alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services covered by medicaid in the care management system.

...The department of medicaid may include prescribed drugs covered by the medicaid program in the care management system.

...If the medicaid program covers the pharmacist services described in section 5164.14 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may include the services in the care management system.

...e department of medicaid may enter into contracts with managed care organizations under which the organizations are authorized to provide, or arrange for the provision of, health care services to medicaid recipients who are required or permitted to participate in the care management system.

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the department of medicaid or its actuary shall base the hospital inpatient capital payment portion of the payment made to a medicaid managed care organization on data for services provided to all of the organization's enrollees, as reported by hospitals on relevant cost reports submitted pursuant to rules adopted under section 5167.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The hospit...

...ed care organizations perform under the contracts entered into under section 5167.10 of the Revised Code. The performance metrics may include financial incentives and penalties. The department shall make available on its internet web site the metrics the department uses to determine how well medicaid managed care organizations perform. The department shall update its internet web site each quarter to reflect any ch...

...Each medicaid managed care organization shall provide a grievance process for the organization's enrollees in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 438, subpart F.

...If prescribed drugs are included in the care management system: (A) Medicaid MCO plans may include strategies for the management of drug utilization, but any such strategies are subject to the limitations and requirements of this section and the approval of the department of medicaid. (B) A medicaid MCO plan shall not impose a prior authorization requirement in the case of a drug to which all of the following a...

...(A) The state pharmacy benefit manager shall, on request from the department of medicaid, disclose to the department all sources of payment it receives for prescribed drugs, including any financial benefits such as drug rebates, discounts, credits, clawbacks, fees, grants, chargebacks, reimbursements, or other payments related to services provided for the medicaid managed care organization. (B) Each medicaid manage...

...(A) No contract between a medicaid managed care organization, including a third-party administrator, and a 340B covered entity shall contain any of the following provisions: (1) A payment rate for a prescribed drug that is less than the national average drug acquisition cost rate for that drug as determined by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services, measured at the time the drug is administere...

...Each medicaid managed care organization shall implement a coordinated services program for the organization's enrollees who are found to have obtained prescribed drugs under the medicaid program at a frequency or in an amount that is not medically necessary. The program shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with section 1915(a)(2) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396n(a)(2), and 42 C.F.R. 431.54...

...Each medicaid managed care organization shall enter into a data security agreement with the state board of pharmacy governing the managed care organization's use of the board's drug database established and maintained under section 4729.75 of the Revised Code. This section does not apply if the board no longer maintains the drug database.

...When contracting under section 5167.10 of the Revised Code with a medicaid managed care organization, the department of medicaid shall require the organization to comply with section 5164.061 of the Revised Code as if the organization were the department. This section does not limit the authority of a medicaid managed care organization to implement measures designed to improve quality and reduce costs.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Help me grow program" means the program established by the department of health pursuant to section 5180.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "Targeted case management" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 440.169(b). (B) A medicaid managed care organization shall provide to a medicaid recipient who meets the criteria in division (C) of this section, or arrange for such recipient to ...