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...(A) As used in this section: "Exchange area" has the same meaning as in section 4927.12 of the Revised Code. "Line loss" refers to the number of access lines, whether residential or commercial, for which a customer of an incumbent local exchange carrier has terminated local exchange service. (B) Not earlier than the date that is exactly four years after the effective date of this section , an incumbent local excha...

...(A) An incumbent local exchange carrier altering its rates for basic local exchange service under section 4927.12, 4927.121, or 4927.122 of the Revised Code shall provide not less than thirty days' notice to the public utilities commission and to affected customers. (B) Division (A) of this section also applies to an incumbent local exchange carrier altering its rates for basic local exchange service in an exchang...

...The rates, terms, and conditions for basic local exchange service and for installation and reconnection fees for basic local exchange service shall be tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission.

...(A) An incumbent local exchange carrier that is an eligible telecommunications carrier under 47 C.F.R. 54.201 shall implement lifeline service throughout the carrier's traditional service area for its eligible residential customers. (1) Lifeline service shall consist of all of the following: (a) Monthly access line service at a recurring discount to the monthly basic local exchange service rate that provides for th...

...The public utilities commission may adopt rules requiring any telephone company that is a telephone toll service provider to offer discounts for operator-assisted and direct-dial services for persons with communication disabilities.

...(A)(1) The rates, terms, and conditions for 9-1-1 service provided in this state by a telephone company or a telecommunications carrier and each of the following provided in this state by a telephone company shall be approved and tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission and shall be subject to the applicable laws, including rules or regulations adopted and orders issued by ...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall not establish any requirements for the unbundling of network elements, for the resale of telecommunications service, or for network interconnection that exceed or are inconsistent with or prohibited by federal law, including federal regulations. (B) The commission shall not establish pricing for such unbundled elements, resale, or interconnection that is inconsistent ...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 4927.07 and 4927.124 of the Revised Code, a telephone company shall provide at least fifteen days' advance notice to its affected customers of any material change in the rates, terms, and conditions of any retail service required to be tariffed by the public utilities commission or the federal communications commission, any wholesale service as to which there is no other applicabl...

...The public utilities commission may adopt rules regarding the rates, terms, and conditions of intrastate telecommunications service initiated from a telephone instrument set aside for use by inmates or juvenile offenders by authorities of a secured correctional facility.

...(A) The public utilities commission may investigate or examine the books, records, or practices of any telephone company, but only to the extent of the commission's jurisdiction over the company under sections 4927.01 to 4927.21 of the Revised Code. Subject to that limitation, the commission may do any of the following: (1) Through its commissioners or by inspectors or employees authorized by it, examine the books...

...To the extent subject to the public utilities commission's jurisdiction under this chapter, all of the following shall comply with every order, direction, and requirement of the commission made under authority of this chapter: (A) Every telephone company, including every wireless service provider; (B) Every telecommunications carrier; (C) Every provider of internet protocol-enabled services, including voice ...

...(A) Any person may file with the public utilities commission, or the commission may initiate, a complaint against a telephone company other than a wireless service provider, alleging that any rate, practice, or service of the company is unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or in violation of or noncompliance with any provision of sections 4927.01 to 4927.20 of the Revised Code or a rule or order adopt...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code, other than division (B) of this section: (1) Broadband internet access service is not subject to regulation by the public utilities commission. (2) No agency, commission, or political subdivision of this state shall enact, adopt, or enforce, either directly or indirectly, any law, rule, regulation, ordinance, standard, order or other provision having the forc...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Ancillary service" means any function necessary to the provision of electric transmission or distribution service to a retail customer and includes, but is not limited to, scheduling, system control, and dispatch services; reactive supply from generation resources and voltage control service; reactive supply from transmission resources service; regulation service; frequency respon...

...It is the policy of this state to do the following throughout this state: (A) Ensure the availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, safe, efficient, nondiscriminatory, and reasonably priced retail electric service; (B) Ensure the availability of unbundled and comparable retail electric service that provides consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their r...

...Beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service, retail electric generation, aggregation, power marketing, and power brokerage services supplied to consumers within the certified territory of an electric utility are competitive retail electric services that the consumers may obtain subject to this chapter from any supplier or suppliers. In accordance with a filing under division (F) of section 4...

...(A) The public utilities commission by order may declare that retail ancillary, metering, or billing and collection service supplied to consumers within the certified territory of an electric utility on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service is a competitive retail electric service that the consumers may obtain from any supplier or suppliers subject to this chapter. The commission may issue...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall provide a competitive retail electric service in this state if that service was deemed competitive or otherwise legally classified as competitive prior to the effective date of this section. (B) The standard service offer under section 4928.141 of the Revised Code shall continue to be provided to consumers in th...

...(A)(1) A competitive retail electric service supplied by an electric services company, or by an electric utility consistent with section 4928.141 of the Revised Code, shall not be subject to supervision and regulation by a municipal corporation under Chapter 743. of the Revised Code or by the public utilities commission under Chapters 4901. to 4909., 4933., 4935., and 4963. of the Revised Code, except sections 4905.1...

...(A) Beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service, the public utilities commission shall ensure that the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code is effectuated. To the extent necessary, the commission shall adopt rules to carry out this chapter. Initial rules necessary for the commencement of the competitive retail electric service under this chapter shall be adopted within one...

...To the maximum extent practicable on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code shall separately price competitive retail electric services, and the prices shall be itemized on the bill of a customer or otherwise disclosed to the cu...

...(A) This section applies to an electric cooperative, or to a governmental aggregator that is a municipal electric utility, only to the extent of a competitive retail electric service it provides to a customer to whom it does not provide a noncompetitive retail electric service through transmission or distribution facilities it singly or jointly owns or operates. (B)(1) No electric utility, electric services company...

...(A)(1) No person shall operate in this state as an electric utility, an electric services company, a billing and collection agent, or a regional transmission organization approved by the federal energy regulatory commission and having the responsibility for maintaining reliability in all or part of this state on and after the starting date of competitive retail electric service unless that person first does bot...

...For the protection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code specifying the necessary minimum service requirements, on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, of an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4...

...(A) As used in this section and section 4928.102 of the Revised Code: (1) "Small commercial customer" means any customer that receives electric service pursuant to a nonresidential tariff if the customer's demand for electricity does not exceed twenty-five kilowatts within the last twelve months. (2) "Small commercial customer" excludes any customer that does one or both of the following: (a) Manages multiple e...

...credited to the fund. The department of medicaid shall maintain records that show the amount of money in the hospital care assurance program fund at any time that has been paid by each hospital and the amount of any investment earnings on that amount. All moneys credited to the hospital care assurance program fund shall be used solely to make payments to hospitals under division (D) of this section and section 5168.0...

... released publicly by the department of medicaid or by any person under contract with the department who has access to such information.

...hospital submitted to the department of medicaid for purposes of the hospital care assurance program. If a hospital has not submitted that cost-reporting data to the department, the amount of a hospital's total facility costs shall be derived from other financial statements that the hospital shall provide to the department as directed by the department. The cost-reporting data or financial statements used to determin...

...essment 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 the preliminary determinatio...

...th 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 determination notice the department issues to hospitals under division (A) of section 5168.22 of the Revised Code...

...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.

...ection 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 5168.23 of the Revised Code, plus any corresponding investment earnings on that amoun...

...ge changes, the new percentage. (J) "Medicaid days" and "nursing facility" have the same meanings as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (K)(1) "Nursing home" means all of the following: (a) A nursing home licensed under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 of the Revised Code, including any part of a home for the aging licensed as a nursing home; (b) A facility or part of a facility, other than a hospital, tha...

... of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall, for each nursing home and hospital that qualifies for a reduction of its franchise permit fee rate under the waiver, reduce the franchise permit fee rate in accordance with the terms of the waiver. For purposes of the first fiscal year during which the waiver takes effect, the department shall determine the amount of the reduction not later than the effective da...

... of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may do both of the following regarding the franchise permit fee assessed under section 5168.42 of the Revised Code: (1) Determine how much money the franchise permit fee would have raised in a fiscal year if not for the waiver; (2) For each nursing home and hospital subject to the franchise permit fee, other than a nursing home or hospital that has its franchise perm...

...ptember of each year, the department of medicaid shall determine the annual franchise permit fee for each nursing home and hospital in accordance with section 5168.42 of the Revised Code and any adjustments made in accordance with sections 5168.44 and 5168.45 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than the first day of October of each year, the department shall notify, electronically or by United States postal service, ...

...ebruary of each year, the department of medicaid shall redetermine each nursing home's and hospital's franchise permit fee if one or more bed surrenders occur during the period beginning on the first day of May of the preceding calendar year and ending on the first day of January of the calendar year in which the redetermination is made. (B) In redetermining nursing homes' and hospitals' franchise permit fees under ...

...e change of operator. The department of medicaid is not required to notify the entering operator regarding the amount of that fiscal year's fee for which the entering operator is responsible.

...nstallment when due, the department of medicaid may assess a five per cent penalty on the amount due for each month or fraction thereof the installment is overdue.

...y on the grounds that the department of medicaid committed a material error in determining or redetermining the amount of the fee. A request for an appeal must be received by the department not later than fifteen days after the date the department notifies the nursing home or hospital of the fee and must include written materials setting forth the basis for the appeal. (B) If a nursing home or hospital submits a req...

...The department of medicaid may make any investigation it considers appropriate to obtain information necessary to fulfill its duties under sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code. At the request of the department, the attorney general shall aid in any such investigations. The attorney general shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions for the enforcement of sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the R...

...ion 5124.01 of the Revised Code. (E) "Medicaid-certified capacity" has the same meaning as in section 5124.01 of the Revised Code. (F) "Provider agreement" has the same meaning as in section 5124.01 of the Revised Code.

...tal number of ICFs/IID receive enhanced medicaid payments or other state payments equal to seventy-five per cent or more of their total franchise permit fee assessments, do both of the following: (1) Recalculate the assessments under division (A) of this section using a per inpatient day rate equal to the indirect guarantee percentage of actual net patient revenue for all ICFs/IID for that fiscal year; (2) Refund...

...t of the following: (1) The ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity; (2) The number of days in the month.

...ible after the end of each quarter, the medicaid director shall certify to the director of budget and management the amount of money that is in the fund as of the last day of that quarter. On receipt of a certification, the director of budget and management shall transfer the amount so certified from the home and community-based services for persons with developmental disabilities fund to the department of developmen...

...The department of medicaid may request that a health insuring corporation provide the department documentation the department needs to verify the amount of the franchise fees imposed on the health insuring corporation plans administered by the corporation and to ensure the corporation's compliance with sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code. On receipt of the request, the health insuring corporation shall pr...

...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.

...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 the health insuring corporation of the department's determination ...

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