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...(A) Whoever recklessly violates any section of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it, except section 3752.07, 3752.11, 3752.111, 3752.113, or 3752.14 of the Revised Code, a rule adopted under section 3752.03 of the Revised Code pertaining to the securing of buildings, structures, or outdoor locations of operation, or an order issued to enforce any of those sections or such a rule, shall be fined not...

...eginning the first day of October, or a later date designated in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code, and ending the thirtieth day of September, or an earlier date designated in rules adopted under that section. (K) "Registered beds" means the total number of hospital beds registered with the department of health, as reported in the most recent "directory of registered hospitals" published by the...

...(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...

...sed 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 an impermissible health care-related tax, the department shall promptly refund to each hospital the amount of money currently in the hospital care assurance program fund created by section 5168.11 of the Revised Code that h...

...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.

... first day of July of each year or at a later date approved by the medicaid director, shall submit to the department of medicaid a financial statement for the preceding calendar year that accurately reflects the income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and net worth of the hospital, and accompanying notes. A hospital that has a fiscal year different from the calendar year shall file its financial statement within one h...

...(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...

...f a hospital's assessment shall be calculated for a cost-reporting period that is specified in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. The department shall consult with hospitals each year when determining the date on which it will issue the preliminary determinations in order to minimize hospitals' cash flow difficulties. If no hospital submits a request for reconsideration under division (B) ...

...ds to each hospital in installments not later than ten working days after the deadline established in rules for each hospital to pay an installment on its assessment under section 5168.06 of the Revised Code. In the case of a governmental hospital that makes intergovernmental transfers, the department shall pay an installment under this section not later than ten working days after the earlier of that deadline or the...

...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...

...Except as specifically required by sections 5168.01 to 5168.14 of the Revised Code, information filed under those sections shall not include any patient-identifying material. Information that includes 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 ...

...(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...

...ces, supplies, equipment, and capital related to the care of patients, regardless of whether patients are enrolled in a health insuring corporation. (2) "Total facility costs" excludes all of the following of a hospital's costs as shown on the cost-reporting data used for purposes of determining the hospital's assessment under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code: (a) Skilled nursing services provided in distinct-pa...

...(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...

...itten request for a reconsideration not later than fourteen days after the hospital's preliminary determination is issued to the hospital. The request must be accompanied by written materials setting forth the basis for the reconsideration. On receipt of the timely request, the department shall reconsider the preliminary determination and may adjust the preliminary determination on the basis of the written materials ...

...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).

... Code is an impermissible health care-related tax under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), the medicaid director shall take all necessary actions to cease implementation of sections 5168.20 to 5168.27 of the Revised Code and shall promptly refund to each hospital the amount of money in the hospital assessment fund at the time the refund is to be made that the hospital paid under section 5...

...he costs of a broad-based health-care-related tax. If the indirect guarantee percentage changes during a fiscal year, the indirect guarantee percentage is the following: (1) For the part of the fiscal year before the change takes effect, the percentage in effect before the change; (2) For the part of the fiscal year beginning with the date the indirect guarantee percentage changes, the new percentage. (J) "M...

...(A) The franchise permit fee rate shall be determined for each fiscal year as follows: (1) Determine the estimated total net patient revenues for all nursing homes and hospital long-term care units for the fiscal year; (2) Multiply the estimated total net patient revenues determined under division (A)(1) of this section by the lesser of the following: (a) The indirect guarantee percentage; (b) Six per cent....