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...n 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 administered or dispensed, or, if no such rate is available at that time, a reimbursement rate that is less than the wholesale acquisition cost of the drug, as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1395w-3a(c)(6)(B); (2) A fee that is not imposed on a health ...

...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.

... 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 ...

...Each medicaid managed care organization shall provide enhanced care management services for pregnant women and women capable of becoming pregnant in the communities specified in rules adopted under section 3701.142 of the Revised Code. The services shall be provided in a manner intended to decrease the incidence of prematurity, low birth weight, and infant mortality, as well as improve the overall health status of wo...

...Each medicaid managed care organization shall, if the organization requires practitioners to obtain prior approval before administering progesterone to the organization's enrollees who are pregnant, use a uniform prior approval form for progesterone that is not more than one page.

...ion 4723.81 of the Revised Code. (4) "Public health nurse" means a registered nurse employed or contracted by a board of health. (5) "Qualified community hub" means a central clearinghouse for a network of community care coordination agencies that meets all of the following criteria: (a) Demonstrates to the director of health that it uses an evidenced-based, pay-for-performance community care coordination model...

...Each medicaid managed care organization shall comply with federal and state efforts to identify fraud, waste, and abuse in the medicaid program.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, when a medicaid managed care organization refers an enrollee to receive services, other than emergency services provided on or after January 1, 2007, at a hospital that participates in the medicaid program but is not under contract with the organization, the hospital shall provide the service for which the referral was made and shall accept from the organization...

...amounts (less any payments for indirect costs of medical education and direct costs of graduate medical education) that the provider could collect if the enrollee received medicaid other than through enrollment in a medicaid MCO plan. An agreement entered into by an enrollee, an enrollee's parent, or an enrollee's legal guardian that requires payment for emergency services in violation of this section is void and ...

... actuarially sufficient amount for the costs that the medicaid managed care organization incurs in paying the rate; (3) No state funds are used for any part of the costs that the medicaid managed care organization incurs in paying the rate; (4) The integrated care delivery system provides for dual eligible individuals to receive the covered skilled nursing facility services as part of the system.

...When a medicaid managed care organization seeks to recoup an overpayment made to a provider, it shall provide the provider all of the details of the recoupment, including all of the following information: (A) The name, address, and medicaid identification number of the enrollee to whom the services were provided; (B) The date or dates that the services were provided; (C) The reason for the recoupment; (D) Th...

...The department of medicaid shall assess the efforts of medicaid managed care organizations to recoup overpayments made to providers who are network providers and providers who are not network providers. The assessments shall examine the amount of time recoupment efforts take starting from the time providers receive final payment and ending when the recoupment effort is completed. Each medicaid managed care organizati...

...(A) If the department of medicaid includes prescribed drugs in the care management system as authorized under section 5167.05 of the Revised Code, the medicaid director, through a procurement process, shall select a third-party administrator to serve as the single pharmacy benefit manager used by medicaid managed care organizations under the care management system. The state pharmacy benefit manager shall be responsi...

...(A)(1) Medicaid managed care organizations shall use the state pharmacy benefit manager selected under section 5167.24 of the Revised Code pursuant to the terms of the master contract entered into under that section. All payment arrangements between the department of medicaid, medicaid managed care organizations, and the state pharmacy benefit manager shall comply with state and federal statutes, regulations adopte...

...(A) The state pharmacy benefit manager shall provide to the medicaid director a written quarterly report containing the following information from the immediately preceding quarter: (1) The prices that the state pharmacy benefit manager negotiated for prescribed drugs under the care management system. The price must include any rebates the state pharmacy benefit manager received from the drug manufacturer; (2) Th...

...No person shall violate the terms of the master state pharmacy benefit manager contract under section 5167.24 of the Revised Code or section 5167.241 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates those sections is subject to a civil penalty in an amount to be determined by the medicaid director.

...putes relating to the maximum allowable cost set by the state pharmacy benefit manager for a prescribed drug. All pharmacies participating in the care management system shall use the appeals process to resolve any disputes relating to the maximum allowable cost set by the state pharmacy benefit manager.

...tracts, including records regarding the cost to the hospital of providing hospital services for the organization, payments made by the organization to the hospital for the services, utilization of hospital services by the organization's enrollees, and other utilization data required by the department.

...(A)(1) The department of medicaid shall establish a managed care performance payment program. Under the program, the department may provide payments to medicaid managed care organizations that meet performance standards established by the department. (2) In establishing performance standards, the department may consult any of the following: (a) Any quality measurements developed under the pediatric quality measures...

...The department of medicaid may provide financial incentive awards to medicaid managed care organizations that meet or exceed performance standards specified in provider agreements or rules adopted by the medicaid director under section 5167.02 of the Revised Code. The department may specify in a contract with a medicaid managed care organization the amounts of financial incentive awards, methodology for distrib...

...Not later than July 1, 2016, the department of medicaid shall implement strategies to improve the integrity of the care management system, including strategies to do both of the following: (A) Increase the department's oversight of medicaid managed care organizations; (B) Provide incentives for identifying fraud, waste, and abuse in the care management system.

...(A) Not later than July 1, 2018, each medicaid managed care organization shall implement strategies that base payments to providers on the value received from the providers' services, including their success in reducing waste in the provision of the services. Not later than July 1, 2020, each medicaid managed care organization shall ensure that at least fifty per cent of the aggregate net payments it makes to provide...

...A medicaid managed care organization, its officers, employees, or other persons associated with the managed care organization are not liable in a civil action for damages or other relief for furnishing information to the department of medicaid regarding potential fraud, waste, or abuse in the medicaid program.