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...If the department of medicaid determines that the amount of a franchise fee that a health insuring corporation paid is less than the amount it should have paid, the department shall notify the health insuring corporation. Except as otherwise provided by the results of a reconsideration conducted under section 5168.80 of the Revised Code, the health insuring corporation shall pay the amount due.

...A health insuring corporation may request a reconsideration of a determination made by the department of medicaid under section 5168.79 of the Revised Code. A reconsideration may be requested solely on the grounds that the department made a material error in making the determination. A request for a reconsideration must be received by the department not later than fifteen days after the date the department notifies t...

...If a health insuring corporation fails to pay the full amount of a component of a franchise fee when due, the department of medicaid may assess a ten per cent penalty on the amount due for each month or fraction thereof that the component of the franchise fee is overdue.

...The franchise fee shall not be imposed on any health insuring corporation plan unless there is in effect a waiver authorizing the franchise fee issued by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to section 1903(w)(3)(E) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w)(3)(E).

...If the total amount of franchise fees imposed on all health insuring corporation plans under section 5168.76 of the Revised Code during a fiscal year exceeds the indirect guarantee percentage of the net patient revenue for all health insuring corporations for that fiscal year and seventy-five per cent or more of all health insuring corporations receive enhanced medicaid payments or other state payments equal to seven...

...If the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the franchise fee is an impermissible health care-related tax under section 1903(w) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), the department of medicaid shall do either of the following as appropriate: (A) Modify the imposition of the franchise fee, including (if necessary) the amount of the franchise fee, in a manner needed for ...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the health insuring corporation franchise fee fund. All payments and penalties paid by health insuring corporations under sections 5168.77, 5168.79, and 5168.81 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. money in the fund shall be used to make medicaid payments to medicaid providers and medicaid managed care organizations. (B) Any interest or other investm...

...The medicaid director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. as necessary to implement sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code.

...(A) At least quarterly, the medicaid director shall report to the members of the joint medicaid oversight committee and the executive director of the joint medicaid oversight committee both of the following: (1) The fee rates and the aggregate total of the fees assessed for each of the following: (a) The hospital assessment established under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code; (b) The nursing home and hospital...

...(A) The medicaid director shall impose a penalty for each day that a hospital fails to report the information required under section 5168.05 of the Revised Code on or before the dates specified in that section. The amount of the penalty shall be established by the director in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. (B) In addition to any other remedy available to the department of medicaid under law...

...The department of medicaid may offset the amount of a hospital's unpaid penalty imposed under section 5168.99 of the Revised Code from one or more payments due the hospital under the medicaid program. The total amount that may be offset from one or more payments shall not exceed the amount of the unpaid penalty.

...ead start, preschool special education, publicly funded child care, and the step up to quality program; (4) Maternal and child physical health, including, but not limited to, infant vitality, home visiting, maternal and child health, maternal and infant support, and Medicaid-funded child health services.

...g their hiring, promotion, termination, discipline, or investigation; (4) Administering the department and directing the performance of its employees and officers; (5) Applying for grants available under federal law or from other federal, state, or private sources and allocating, disbursing, or accounting for any funds awarded; (6) Any other action as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (...

...dministered by local or community-based public or private entities and, to the extent they do not, whether they should. (3) With assistance from academic medical centers, track and analyze infant mortality rates by county for the purpose of determining the impact of state and local initiatives to reduce those rates. (C) The commission shall consist of the following members: (1) Two members of the senate, one...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates" means infant mortality and preterm birth rates that are derived from vital records as defined in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, are not considered finalized by the department of health, and are subject to modification as additional birth and death data are received by the department and added to vital records. (2) "Sti...

...(A) As used in this section, "stillbirth" means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation, which after such expulsion or extraction does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. (B) The director of children a...

...eal time on a data dashboard to be made publicly available. (C) The scorecard shall include a description of the data sources and methodology used to complete the scorecard.

...(A) As used in this section and sections 5180.15, 5180.16, and 5180.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child care center," "type A family child care home," and "licensed type B family child care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Child care facility" means a child care center, a type A family child care home, or a licensed type B family child care home. (3) "Foster caregiv...

..., to each of its employees; (6) By a public children services agency, when the agency has initial contact with an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant. (B) An entity or person required to distribute educational materials pursuant to division (A) of this section is not liable for damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly arises from...

...(A) As used in this section, "sudden unexpected infant death" means the death of an infant that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, the cause of which is not immediately obvious prior to investigation. (B) The department of children and youth shall establish the safe sleep education program by doing all of the following: (1) Developing educational materials that present readily comprehendible information on safe ...

...he governor. (G) A facility, and any employee, contractor, or volunteer of a facility, that implements an infant safe sleep procedure in accordance with division (B) of this section is not liable for damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly arises from an act or omission associated with implementation of the procedure, unless the act or omission constitutes willful ...

...The director of children and youth shall require each recipient of a grant the department of children and youth administers that pertains to safe crib procurement to report annually to the department both of the following: (A) Demographic information specified by the director of children and youth regarding the individuals to whom safe cribs were distributed; (B) If known, the extent to which distributed cribs ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a population-based questionnaire designed to examine maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after a woman's pregnancy, as well as during the early infancy of the woman's child. The questionnaire shall collect information that is similar to the information collected by the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (PRAMS) questionnaire that the de...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall identify each government program providing benefits, other than the help me grow program established by the department of children and youth pursuant to section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, that has the goal of reducing infant mortality and negative birth outcomes or the goal of reducing disparities among women who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant and who belon...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish the help me grow program as the state's evidence-based parent support program that encourages early prenatal and well-baby care, as well as provides parenting education to promote the comprehensive health and development of children. The program shall provide home visiting services to families with a pregnant woman or child under five years of age that meet the...