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...The department of medicaid shall appoint a temporary manager for a medicaid managed care organization if the department determines that the medicaid managed care organization has repeatedly failed to meet substantive requirements specified in the "Social Security Act," sections 1903(m) and 1932, 42 U.S.C. 1396b(m) and 1396u-2; or 42 C.F.R. 438 Part I. The appointment of a temporary manager does not preclude the...

...The department of medicaid may disenroll some or all medicaid recipients from a medicaid MCO plan offered by a medicaid managed care organization if the department proposes to terminate or not to renew the contract entered into under section 5167.10 of the Revised Code and determines that the recipients' access to medically necessary services is jeopardized by the proposal to terminate or not to renew the contract. T...

...The department of medicaid shall include information about medicaid recipients' races, ethnicities, and primary languages in data the department shares with medicaid managed care organizations. Medicaid managed care organizations shall include this information in the data the organizations share with providers.

...(A) When contracting with a medicaid managed care organization, the department of medicaid shall require the medicaid managed care organization to provide to medicaid enrollees the same benefits and rights as required under division (B) of section 3902.36 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director shall do both of the following: (1) Implement and enforce division (B) of section 3902.36 of the Revised Code wit...

...As used in sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Bad debt," "charity care," "courtesy care," and "contractual allowances" have the same meanings given these terms in regulations adopted under Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq. (B) "Cost reporting period" means the twelve-month period used by a hospital in reporting costs for purposes of Title XVIII of the "Social Securi...

...(A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the purpose of administering sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Define as a "disproportionate share hospital" any hospital included under the "Social Security Act," section 1923(b), 42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(b), and any other hospital the director determines ap...

...The requirements of sections 5168.06 to 5168.09 of the Revised Code apply only as long as the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the assessment imposed under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code is a permissible health care-related tax pursuant to the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w). Whenever the department of medicaid is informed that the assessment is ...

...The department of medicaid shall operate the hospital care assurance program established by sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code on a program year basis. The department shall complete all program requirements on or before the thirtieth day of September each year.

...be prepared by an independent certified public accountant and reflect an official audit report prepared in a manner consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. The financial statement shall, to the extent that the hospital has sufficient financial records, show bad debt and charity care separately from courtesy care and contractual allowances. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, ea...

...(A) For the purpose of distributing funds to hospitals under the medicaid program pursuant to sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code and depositing funds into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code, there is hereby imposed an assessment on all hospitals. Each hospital's assessment shall be based on total facility costs. All hospitals shall be as...

...(A) The department of medicaid may require governmental hospitals to make intergovernmental transfers each program year for the purpose of distributing funds to hospitals under the medicaid program pursuant to sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code and depositing funds into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code. The department shall not require...

... a request, the department shall hold a public hearing not later than thirty days after the preliminary determinations are issued to reconsider the preliminary determinations. The department shall issue to each hospital a written notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing at least ten days prior to the hearing. On the basis of the evidence submitted to the department or presented at the public hearing, the de...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code establishing a methodology to pay hospitals that is sufficient to expend all money in the indigent care pool. Under the rules: (A) The department of medicaid may classify similar hospitals into groups and allocate funds for distribution within each group. (B) The department shall establish a method of allocating funds to hospitals, ta...

...Except for moneys deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall not use money paid to the department under sections 5168.06 and 5168.07 of the Revised Code or money that the department pays to hospitals under section 5168.09 of the Revised Code to replace any funds appropriated by the general assembly for the med...

...(A) Except as provided in section 5162.52 of the Revised Code, all payments of assessments by hospitals under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code and all intergovernmental transfers under section 5168.07 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the hospital care assurance program fund, hereby created. All investment earnings of the hospital care assurance program fund shall be cre...

...s patient-identifying material is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and no patient-identifying material shall be released publicly by the department of medicaid or by any person under contract with the department who has access to such information.

...(A) Each hospital that receives funds distributed under sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code shall provide, without charge to the individual, basic, medically necessary hospital-level services to individuals who are residents of this state, are not medicaid recipients, and whose income is at or below the federal poverty line. The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code...

...As used in sections 5168.20 to 5168.28 of the Revised Code: (A) "Applicable assessment percentage" means the percentage specified in rules adopted under section 5168.26 of the Revised Code that is used in calculating a hospital's assessment under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code. (B) "Assessment program year" means the twelve-month period beginning the first day of October of a calendar year and ending the last ...

...(A) For the purposes specified in section 5168.25 of the Revised Code and subject to section 5168.28 of the Revised Code, there is hereby imposed an assessment on all hospitals each assessment program year. The amount of a hospital's assessment for an assessment program year shall equal the applicable assessment percentage of the hospital's total facility costs for the period of time specified in division (B) of this...

...(A) Before or during each assessment program year, the department of medicaid shall issue to each hospital the preliminary determination of the amount that the hospital is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code for the assessment program year. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the preliminary determination becomes the final determination for the assessment program year fifteen days after...

...Each hospital shall pay the amount it is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code in accordance with a payment schedule the department of medicaid shall establish for each assessment program year. The department shall consult with the Ohio hospital association before establishing the payment schedule for any assessment program year. The department shall include the payment schedule in each preliminary deter...

...The department of medicaid may audit a hospital to ensure that the hospital properly pays the amount it is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code. The department shall take action to recover from a hospital any amount the audit reveals that the hospital should have paid but did not pay.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the hospital assessment fund. All installment payments made by hospitals under section 5168.23 of the Revised Code and all recoveries the department of medicaid makes under section 5168.24 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The department shall use money in the fund to pay for the costs ...

...(A) The medicaid director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement sections 5168.20 to 5168.28 of the Revised Code, including rules that specify the percentage of hospitals' total facility costs to be used in calculating hospitals' assessments under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code. (B) The rules adopted under this section may do the following: (1) Provi...

...The medicaid director shall implement the assessment imposed by section 5168.21 of the Revised Code in a manner that does not cause a reduction in federal financial participation for the medicaid program under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w).