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...The director of health shall: (A) Encourage and assist in the development of programs of education and research pertaining to the causes, detection, and treatment of sickle cell disease and provide for rehabilitation and counseling of persons possessing the trait of or afflicted with this disease; (B) Advise, consult, cooperate with, and assist, by contract or otherwise, agencies of this state and the federal gover...

...(A) As used in this section, "WIC program" means the "special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children" established under the "Child Nutrition Act of 1966," 80 Stat. 885, 42 U.S.C. 1786, as amended. (B) The department of health is hereby designated as the state agency to administer the WIC program. The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as nece...

...(A) The department of health shall make available on its web site information about the risks associated with meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B, the availability of vaccines, and the effectiveness of the vaccines. The department shall provide written notice of the availability of meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B information on the web site to all of the following: (1) Each city, local, exempted ...

...To the extent appropriations made by the general assembly make this possible, the director of health shall provide, for the purpose of section 3313.671 of the Revised Code, the means of immunization against chicken pox to boards of health, legislative authorities of municipal corporations, and boards of township trustees.

...(A) The autism diagnosis education pilot program is hereby established in the department of health. The program shall have the following goals: (1) To educate health care professionals, teachers and other educational personnel, child care providers, parents, early intervention and developmental disabilities providers, and other community-based services providers in this state regarding the diagnosis of autism...

...(A) The director of health may establish a school-based fluoride mouth rinse program. If the director establishes the program, divisions (B) to (E) of this section are applicable. (B) The director shall conduct a program to educate employees of the department of health and dental hygienists licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code on how to train employees of, and volunteers for, public and nonpublic ...

...(A) As used in this section, "complex regional pain syndrome" or "CRPS," also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, means a debilitating and progressively chronic syndrome characterized by severe burning pain, pathological changes in bone and skin, excessive sweating, tissue swelling, and extreme sensitivity to touch. (B) The department of health shall include information on its internet web site to...

...(A) As used in this section, "older adult" means an individual who is sixty years of age or older. (B) The department of health shall prepare an influenza vaccine information sheet that pertains to older adults. The information sheet shall contain all of the following: (1) A description of influenza, including its causes, symptoms, and methods of transmission; (2) A discussion of the health risks that influenza...

...the department of health, department of medicaid, department of administrative services, and commission on minority health to do all of the following: (1) Assess the prevalence of all types of diabetes in this state, including disparities in that prevalence among various demographic populations and local jurisdictions; (2) Establish and reevaluate goals for each of the agencies to reduce that prevalence; (3) Id...

...During any declared disaster, epidemic, pandemic, public health emergency, or public safety emergency, an individual with a developmental disability or any other permanent disability who is in need of surgery or any other health care procedure, any medical or other health care test, or any clinical care visit shall be given the opportunity to have at least one parent or legal guardian present if the presence of the i...

...(A) Subject to section 101.36 of the Revised Code, the director of health shall investigate or make inquiry as to the cause of disease or illness, including contagious, infectious, epidemic, pandemic, or endemic conditions, and take prompt action to control and suppress it. The reports of births and deaths, the sanitary conditions and effects of localities and employments, the personal and business habits of the peop...

...(A) There is hereby created in the department of health the women's health program,. (B) To the extent funds are available, the women's health program shall: (1) Identify, review, and assist the director in the coordination of programs and resources the department of health is committing to women's health concerns, including the department's women's and infants' program activities; (2) Advocate for women's health...

...tor of health, in consultation with the medicaid director, shall adopt rules specifying the urban and rural communities that have the highest infant mortality rates in this state. The communities shall be identified by zip code or portions of zip codes that are contiguous. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "drug of abuse" has the same meaning as in section 4506.01 of the Revised Code. (B) For purposes of sections 1547.11, 4511.19, and 4511.194 of the Revised Code, the director of health shall determine, or cause to be determined, techniques or methods for chemically analyzing a person's whole blood, blood serum or plasma, urine, breath, oral fluid, or other bodily substance in order to as...

...(A) As used in this section, "cost sharing" has the same meaning as in section 3923.85 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health shall administer the state's participation in the national breast and cervical cancer early detection program (NBCCEDP), which shall be known as the Ohio breast and cervical cancer project. The project shall be administered in accordance with Title XV of the "Public Health Servic...

...(A) The director of health shall ensure that, as part of the Ohio breast and cervical cancer project administered under section 3701.144 of the Revised Code, a woman who meets all of the following conditions receives treatment for breast or cervical cancer: (1) The woman was screened for breast or cervical cancer by a provider who either does not participate in or was not paid for the screening by the Ohio breast a...

...(A) In taking actions regarding tuberculosis, the director of health has all of the following duties and powers: (1) The director shall maintain registries of hospitals, clinics, physicians, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse practitioners, or other care providers to whom the director shall refer persons who make inquiries to the department of health regarding possible exposure t...

...Each year, the director of health shall make a report to the governor, which shall include so much of the proceedings of the department of health, information concerning vital statistics and diseases, instructions on the subject of hygiene for dissemination among the people and suggestions as to legislation as the director deems proper. The director shall include in the director's annual report a full statement o...

...The director of health may purchase, store, and distribute antitoxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies that the director deems advisable in the interest of preparing for or responding to a public health emergency. The discretion granted to the director by this section does not relieve the director of the duty to act under section 3701.161 of the Re...

...The director of health shall make necessary arrangements for the production and distribution of diphtheria antitoxin. Such antitoxin shall in all respects be equal in purity and potency to the standard of requirements of the United States public health service for antitoxin for interstate commerce. Diphtheria antitoxin shall be distributed in accordance with rules the director adopts pursuant to Chapter 119. of...

...Any licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife if authorized as described in section 4723.438 of the Revised Code, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner practicing in this state, or the superintendent of any state or county institution, may receive without charge the quantities of antitoxin as the physician, nurse, or superintendent requires for the treatment or prevention of diphtheria in indig...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Protected health information" means information, in any form, including oral, written, electronic, visual, pictorial, or physical that describes an individual's past, present, or future physical or mental health status or condition, receipt of treatment or care, or purchase of health products, if eithe...

...The director of health shall establish techniques and procedures as appropriate for use by the division of parks and watercraft in the department of natural resources when taking samples and conducting tests under section 1546.08 of the Revised Code of the waters of this state that are adjacent to public swimming beaches as defined in that section. The director of health, in consultation with and subject to the appro...

...As used in sections 3701.19 to 3701.201 of the Revised Code: (A) "Poison prevention and treatment center" means an entity designated as a poison prevention and treatment center by the director of health under section 3701.20 of the Revised Code. (B) "Harm" means injury, death, or loss to person or property. (C) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property. "Tort a...

...(A) In accordance with rules adopted under division (C) of this section, the director of health shall establish, promote, and maintain the Ohio poison control network; designate regions within the network; and designate poison prevention and treatment centers within each region. The purposes of the network are to: (1) Reduce the mortality resulting from and the expenditures incurred because of accidental, hom...

...To be eligible for the medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program, an individual must meet all of the following requirements: (A) Need an intermediate level of care as determined by an assessment conducted under section 173.546 of the Revised Code; (B) While receiving assisted living services under the medicaid-funded component, reside in a residential care facility that is authorized by a valid...

...ible individuals may be enrolled in the medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program in accordance with this section. An individual is eligible for the assisted living program's home first component if both of the following apply: (1) The individual has been determined to be eligible for the medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program. (2) At least one of the following applies: (a) T...

...0, 2019, the person is eligible for the medicaid program or is a medicaid recipient. (iv) Except as provided in division (A)(7)(b)(iii) of this section, the person is not eligible for or a recipient, enrollee, or beneficiary of any governmental health care program. (8) "Nonprofit health care referral organization" means an entity that is not operated for profit and refers patients to, or arranges for the provisio...

...h the certification requirements of the medicaid program cites the defendant's receipt of the residential habilitation, care, and treatment in the facility as being inappropriate under the certification requirements, if the defendant's receipt of the residential habilitation, care, and treatment in the facility potentially jeopardizes the facility's continued receipt of federal medicaid moneys, and if as a result of ...

...dents residing in the district who are medicaid recipients. The director shall furnish such numbers upon receipt of lists of student names furnished by the district board, in such form as the director may require. The medicaid director shall provide the director of developmental disabilities with the data necessary for compliance with this section. Section 3319.321 of the Revised Code does not apply to the ...

... section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. "Medicaid provider" has the same meaning as in section 5164.01 of the Revised Code. (B) No candidate for the office of attorney general or county prosecutor or such a candidate's campaign committee shall knowingly accept any contribution from a medicaid provider or from any person having an ownership interest in the medicaid provider. (C) Whoever violates this section is g...

...tate treasury the department of health medicaid fund. All funds the department of health receives for the purpose of paying the expenses the department incurs under the medicaid program shall be deposited into the fund. The department shall use the money in the fund to pay the expenses the department incurs under the medicaid program.

...ded, or nursing facility beds under the medicaid program, Title XIX of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 286 (1965), 42 U.S.C. 1396, as amended; (3) An increase of hospital beds reported in an application submitted under section 3722.03 of the Revised Code as long-term care beds. (B) For the purpose of implementing this section, the director shall do all of the following: (1) Not later than October 1, 2023...

... United States centers for medicare and medicaid services regulations, the compassionate caregiver shall comply with all regulations and guidance issued by the centers for medicare and medicaid services, as well as the facility's visitor policy established under division (D) of this section. When visiting a resident in a long-term care facility that is not governed by centers for medicare and medicaid services regula...

...by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services or an organization acceptable to the department under division (C) of this section. (2) To be eligible for recognition as a thrombectomy-capable stroke center under section 3727.13 of the Revised Code, a hospital must be certified as a thrombectomy-capable stroke center by an accrediting organization approved by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid...

...surance shall notify the department of medicaid of all long-term care insurance policies that meet all of the following requirements: (A) Comply with sections 3923.41 to 3923.48 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under section 3923.47 of the Revised Code; (B) Provide benefits for home and community-based services in addition to nursing home care; (C) Include case management services in its coverage of...

...ces that are reimbursed under the state medicaid plan: (1) A public nonemergency medical service organization; (2) An urban or rural public transit system; (3) A private nonprofit organization that receives grants under section 5501.07 of the Revised Code. (N)(1) An entity, to the extent it provides ambulette services, if the entity meets all of the following conditions: (a) The entity is certified by the depart...

...l health and addiction services and the medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the residential state supplement program, including the requirements that an individual must satisfy to be eligible for payments under the program. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules adopted by the director of mental health and addiction services may establish t...

...ment of developmental disabilities for medicaid waiver state match, the department shall expend, in fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter, not less than the amount appropriated in appropriation item 322-416, medicaid waiver - state match, in fiscal year 2008 to do both of the following: (1) Pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for home and community-based services that section 5123....

...(A) The total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5124.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for ICF/IID services provided by an ICF/IID, or discrete unit of an ICF/IID, designated by the department of developmental disabilities as an outlier ICF/IID or unit. Instead, the provider of a designated outlier ICF/IID or unit shall be paid each fiscal year a total per medicaid day payment rate that th...

...bilities shall redetermine a provider's medicaid payment rate for an ICF/IID using revised information if either of the following results in a determination that the provider received a higher medicaid payment rate for the ICF/IID than the provider was entitled to receive: (1) The provider properly amends a cost report for the ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Code; (2) The department makes a finding ...

...ner of an ICF/IID participating in the medicaid program shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a facility closure or voluntary termination not less than ninety days before the effective date of the facility closure or voluntary termination. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medi...

...ll of the items and services covered by medicaid as ICF/IID services and as home and community-based services. The department shall develop the pamphlet in consultation with persons and organizations interested in matters pertaining to individuals eligible for ICF/IID services and home and community-based services. (B) Each ICF/IID provider shall provide the pamphlet to the residents of the ICF/IID who receive ICF/I...

...oard. (2) Employs or contracts with a medicaid services manager, or has entered into an agreement with another county board that employs or contracts with a medicaid services manager to have that medicaid services manager serve both counties. The superintendent of a county board shall not serve as the medicaid services manager of the county board.

...is deemed to refer to the department of medicaid or medicaid director, as the case may be, to the extent the reference is about a duty or authority of the department of medicaid or medicaid director regarding a medical assistance program.

...Not less than once each year, the medicaid director shall submit a report on the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program to the governor, general assembly, and joint medicaid oversight committee. The copy to the general assembly shall be submitted in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. The report shall include all of the following information: (A) The number of individuals who pa...

...ministers one or more components of the medicaid program and has reasonable cause to believe that an instance of fraud, waste, or abuse has occurred in the medicaid program shall inform the department of medicaid. The department shall collect the information in the medicaid data warehouse system established under section 5162.11 of the Revised Code.

...The department of medicaid shall certify amounts due under the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code to the attorney general pursuant to section 131.02 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may enter into a contract with any person or government entity to collect the amounts due on behalf of the attorney general. The attorney general, in entering into a cont...

...The department of medicaid may enter into contracts with one or more other state agencies or political subdivisions to have the state agency or political subdivision administer one or more components of the medicaid program, or one or more aspects of a component, under the department's supervision. A state agency or political subdivision that enters into such a contract shall comply with the terms of the contra...

...The medicaid director shall create, in accordance with sections 5162.36 to 5 162.366 of the Revised Code, the medicaid school component of the medicaid program.