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...ssociated with the delivery of medicaid services to any medicaid recipient if the hospital refuses without good cause to contract with a medicaid managed care organization that serves the area in which the hospital is located. (B) A hospital is not subject to division (A) of this section if all of the following are the case: (1) The hospital is located in a county in which participants in the care management ...

...As used in this section, "federal upper reimbursement limit" means the limit established pursuant to the "Social Security Act," section 1927(e), 42 U.S.C. 1396r-8(e). The medicaid payment for a drug that is subject to a federal upper reimbursement limit shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the federal upper reimbursement limit for the drug.

...(A) As used in this section, "state maximum allowable cost" means the per unit amount the medicaid program pays a terminal distributor of dangerous drugs for a prescribed drug included in the state maximum allowable cost program established under division (B) of this section. "State maximum allowable cost" excludes dispensing fees and copayments, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing charges, if any. (B) Subject to se...

...ect prescription expenses, professional services and personnel costs, and usual and customary overhead expenses of the terminal distributors surveyed. The survey shall compute and report the cost of dispensing by terminal distributors.

...In December of every even-numbered year, the medicaid director shall establish dispensing fees, effective the following July, for terminal distributors of dangerous drugs that are providers of drugs under the medicaid program. In establishing dispensing fees, the director shall take into consideration the results of the survey conducted under section 5164.752 of the Revised Code. The director may establish dispensing...

...(A) As used in this section, "dangerous drug" and "manufacturer of dangerous drugs" have the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director may enter into or administer an agreement or cooperative arrangement with other states to create or join a multiple-state prescription drug purchasing program for the purpose of negotiating with manufacturers of dangerous drugs to receiv...

...The medicaid director, in rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code, may establish and implement a supplemental drug rebate program under which drug manufacturers may be required to provide the department of medicaid a supplemental rebate as a condition of having the drug manufacturers' drug products covered by the medicaid program without prior approval. The department may receive a supplemental ...

...Any record, data, pricing information, or other information regarding a drug rebate agreement or a supplemental drug rebate agreement for the medicaid program that the department of medicaid receives from a pharmaceutical manufacturer or creates pursuant to negotiation of the agreement is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall be treated by the department as confidential informa...

...(A) As used in this section, "licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director may acquire or specify technologies to provide information regarding medicaid recipient eligibility, claims history, and drug coverage to medicaid providers through electronic health record and e-prescribing applications. If such te...

...evised Code to implement a coordinated services program for medicaid recipients who are found to have obtained prescribed drugs under the medicaid program at a frequency or in an amount that is not medically necessary. The program shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with the "Social Security Act," section 1915(a)(2), 42 U.S.C. 1396n(a)(2), and 42 C.F.R. 431.54(e).

...In accordance with the "Social Security Act," section 1927(g), 42 U.S.C. 1396r-8(g), the department of medicaid shall establish an outpatient drug use review program to assure that prescriptions obtained by medicaid recipients are appropriate, medically necessary, and unlikely to cause adverse medical results.

...(A) There is hereby established the pharmacy and therapeutics committee of the department of medicaid. The committee shall assist the department with developing and maintaining a preferred drug list for the medicaid program. The committee shall review and recommend to the medicaid director the drugs that should be included on the preferred drug list. The recommendations shall be made based on the evaluation of comp...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cost-sharing" means any cost-sharing requirements instituted for the medicaid program under section 5162.20 of the Revised Code. (2) "Medication synchronization" means a pharmacy service that synchronizes the filling or refilling of prescriptions in a manner that allows the dispensed drugs to be obtained on the same date each month. (3) "Prescriber" has the same meaning as in sect...

...-administered drugs. (6) "Urgent care services" has the same meaning as in section 3922.041 of the Revised Code. (B) If the department of medicaid utilizes a step therapy protocol for the medicaid program under which it is recommended that prescribed drugs be taken in a specific sequence, the department shall do all of the following: (1) Implement that step therapy protocol using clinical review criteria that a...

...urs for requests related to urgent care services; (b) Ten calendar days for all other requests. (2)(a) If an exemption request is denied, a medicaid provider may appeal the denial on behalf of the medicaid recipient. (b) From the time a step therapy appeal is received, the department shall either grant or deny the appeal within the following time frames: (i) Forty-eight hours for appeals related to urgent ...

...(A) Not later than July 1, 2020, the medicaid director shall establish an annual benchmark for prescribed drug spending growth under the medicaid program. If the director determines that prescribed drug spending in a given year is projected to exceed the benchmark for that year, the director shall identify specific prescribed drugs that significantly contribute to exceeding the benchmark. (B) For a prescribed drug ...

... for providing community mental health services covered by the medicaid program pursuant to section 5164.15 of the Revised Code; (2) Providers of alcohol and drug addiction services for providing alcohol and drug addiction services covered by the medicaid program. (B) The director's authority to modify the manner, or to establish a new manner, for medicaid to pay for the services specified in division (A) of ...

...partment of mental health and addiction services updates medicaid billing codes or medicaid payment rates for community behavioral health services as part of the behavioral health redesign, the departments shall conduct a beta test of the updates. Any medicaid provider of community behavioral health services may volunteer to participate in the beta test. An update may not begin to be implemented outside of the beta t...

... for the following neonatal and newborn services shall equal not less than seventy-five per cent of the medicare payment rates for the services in effect on the date the services are provided to medicaid recipients eligible for the services: (1) Initial care for normal newborns; (2) Subsequent day, hospital care for normal newborns; (3) Same day, initial history and physical examination and discharge for nor...

... changes to payment rates for medicaid services, the medicaid director shall give public notice in the register of Ohio of any change to a method or standard used to determine the medicaid payment rate for a medicaid service.

...The department of medicaid shall not knowingly make a medicaid payment for a provider-preventable condition for which federal financial participation is prohibited by regulations adopted under the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," section 2702, 42 U.S.C. 1396b-1.

...(A) As used in this section, "cost-effective" and "group health plan" have the same meanings as in the "Social Security Act," section 1906, 42 U.S.C. 1396e, and any regulations adopted under that section. (B) The department of medicaid may implement a program pursuant to the "Social Security Act," section 1906, 42 U.S.C. 1396e, for the enrollment of medicaid-eligible individuals in group health plans when the...

...The medicaid director shall establish a qualified state long-term care insurance partnership program consistent with the definition of that term in the "Social Security Act," section 1917(b)(1)(C)(iii), 42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)(C)(iii). An individual participating in the program who is subject to the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code shall be eligible for the re...

...The medicaid director may implement within the medicaid program a system under which medicaid recipients with chronic conditions are provided with coordinated care through health homes, as authorized by the "Social Security Act," section 1945, 42 U.S.C. 1396w-4.

...al disabilities may receive health home services, as defined in the "Social Security Act," section 1945 (h)(4), 42 U.S.C. 1396w-4(h)(4). Any such system shall focus on the needs of individuals and have as its goal improving services and outcomes under the medicaid program by improving integration of long-term care services and supportive services with primary and acute health care services. In developing any system ...