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...r more managed care organizations for each state office, agency, institution, board, or commission, except for a public college or university, unless otherwise agreed to between the department and a state office, agency, institution, board, or commission.

...Each contract the administrator of workers' compensation enters into with a managed care organization under division (B)(4) of section 4121.44 of the Revised Code shall require the managed care organization to enter into a data security agreement with the state board of pharmacy governing the managed care organization's use of the board's drug database established and maintained under section 4729.75 of the Rev...

...ief ombudsperson with the office space, supplies, and clerical assistance that will enable the chief ombudsperson and the ombudsperson system staff to perform their duties effectively. The ombudsperson program shall be funded out of the budget of the bureau and the chief ombudsperson and the ombudsperson system staff shall be carried on the bureau payroll. The chief ombudsperson and the ombudsperson system shall be u...

...n 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution. Chapter 4167. of the Revised Code and rules and standards adopted thereunder are not the rules or enactment referred to in this division and shall not be considered as such for purposes of this section. (B) If a staff hearing officer, in the course of the staff hearing officer's determination of a claim for an additional award under Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution...

...e, or death resulted from an employer's failure to comply with a specific safety rule for the protection of the lives, health, and safety of employees shall be forever barred unless it is filed within one year after the date of the injury or death or within one year after the disability due to the occupational disease began.

... order of the administrator or of the industrial commission or by a self-insuring employer but were obtained at a frequency or in an amount that is not medically necessary. The program shall be implemented in a manner that is substantially similar to the coordinated services programs established for the medicaid program under sections 5164.758 and 5167.13 of the Revised Code.

...sable occupational diseases pursuant to Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to return to work or to assist in lessening or removing any resulting impairment.

...(A) The authority granted to the administrator of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code includes the authority to do all of the following: (1) Contract with any public or private person for the rendition of rehabilitation services; (2) Take actions and utilize money in the state insurance fund as necessary to obtain federal funds and assistance in the max...

...nes could probably be rehabilitated to achieve the goals established by section 4121.61 of the Revised Code and who agree to undergo rehabilitation shall be paid living maintenance payments for a period or periods which do not exceed six months in the aggregate, unless review by the administrator or the administrator's designee reveals that the claimant will be benefited by an extension of such payments. Living main...

...Notwithstanding section 4123.512 of the Revised Code, no person may appeal to court any action or decision issued under sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. A person may, however, appeal the decision pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code.

...Self-insuring employers may furnish rehabilitation services as long as the quality and content of the services are equal to or greater than that provided by the bureau of workers' compensation.

...ot subject to garnishment, levy, or attachment. (C) Sections 4123.343, 4123.63, and 4123.64 of the Revised Code do not apply to living maintenance payments. (D) A self-insuring employer shall pay directly to a claimant or to the provider of the rehabilitation services, counseling, or training the expenses listed in division (A) of this section.

...the corresponding number of weeks in which the claimant receives payments pursuant to division (B) of section 4123.56 of the Revised Code. (B) A self-insuring employer shall make the payments described in division (A) of this section directly as part of a claim.

... the injury, disease, or death shall be charged to the surplus fund account, created pursuant to section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, and not charged through the state insurance fund to the employer against which the claim was allowed so long as the employer pays assessments into the surplus fund account for the payment of such compensation and benefits. If an employer is a self-insuring employer, the self-insuring e...

...stablish compensation plans, including schedules of hourly rates, for the compensation of professional, administrative, and managerial employees who are employed to fulfill the duties placed upon the bureau of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. The administrator may establish rules or policies for the administration of the respective compensation plans. This div...

...ent contractor or subcontractor who has failed to pay into the state insurance fund the amount of premium determined and fixed by the administrator of workers' compensation for the person's employment or occupation or who is a self-insuring employer and who has failed to pay compensation and benefits directly to the employer's injured and to the dependents of the employer's killed employees as required by section 412...

...This chapter does not apply to policemen or firemen in municipal corporations where the injured policemen or firemen are eligible to participate in any policemen's or firemen's pension funds established and maintained by a municipal corporation, unless the amount of the pension funds provided by the municipal corporation through taxation and paid to the policemen or firemen is less than they would have ...

...tate active duty" means that status attaching to a member of the Ohio organized militia performing duty ordered by competent state authority, for which duty status injury and occupational disease benefits are not otherwise provided by act of the congress of the United States or executive regulations of the United States.

...Every member of the Ohio organized militia as defined in section 5923.01 of the Revised Code shall, when called to state active duty, be in the employment of the state for the purposes of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, and 4123.99 of the Revised Code.

...For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.57 of the Revised Code, a member of the Ohio organized militia shall qualify for maximum benefits provided for workers and employees under sections 4123.01 to 4123.60, inclusive, 4123.62 to 4123.94, inclusive, and 4123.99 of the Revised Code.

... state insurance fund. At the end of each six months of each fiscal year, the administrator of workers' compensation shall certify to the adjutant general the amounts paid for compensation and benefits for accidental injuries and death compensable pursuant to sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code and for costs of administration.

...hall be entitled to all the benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. Any payments made from the state insurance fund pursuant to this section shall be charged to the surplus fund as created by division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, in order to encourage participation of all persons in times of emergency.

...e skin or another opening in the skin such as an open sore, wound, lesion, abrasion, or ulcer. (B) The administrator, a self-insuring public employer, or a detention facility that is a self-insuring employer shall pay the costs of conducting post-exposure medical diagnostic services to investigate whether an employee described in division (A) of this section sustained an injury or occupational disease if both of th...

...unty, township, municipal corporation, school district, and any institution or agency of the state, employs, enlists, recruits, solicits, or otherwise secures the services of any organization, association, or group of persons and the members thereof, including volunteer firemen, and auxiliary policemen and patrolmen, the individual members of which are not, by reason of such service, employees as defined in divisi...

...As used in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code: (A) "Emergency management worker" means anyone who has been duly registered for service pursuant to section 5502.34 of the Revised Code, in connection with the development, maintenance, and operation of any state or local emergency management agency authorized by law and who has met the minimum requirements as set forth in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of...