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...lication filed under this section, the public utilities commission may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism or device in a natural gas company's rate schedules that allows a natural gas company's rates or charges for a regulated service or goods to fluctuate automatically in accordance with changes in a specified cost or costs. (B) Upon an application filed under section 4909.18 or 4929.05 of the Revised ...

...mpany may file an application with the public utilities commission under section 4909.18, 4929.05, or 4929.11 of the Revised Code to implement a capital expenditure program for any of the following: (1) Any infrastructure expansion, infrastructure improvement, or infrastructure replacement program; (2) Any program to install, upgrade, or replace information technology systems; (3) Any program reasonably nece...

...ification to the existing powers of the public utilities commission under Title XLIX of the Revised Code.

....04 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code is a public utility for the purpose of exercising the rights of a public utility in support of its regulated services and goods. Nothing in this chapter affects the right of appropriation of a natural gas company under law in support of its regulated services and goods.

... not subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4929.03 to 4929.05 of the Revised Code.

...ating good cause, may be filed with the public utilities commission. The commission shall rule on the application within ten days after the date of its filing. (C) A person subpoenaed under this section shall comply with the terms of the subpoena, unless, as provided under division (B) of this section, the parties agree to modify the terms of the subpoena or unless the commission has modified or quashed the subpoena...

...As used in sections 4929.16 to 4929.167 of the Revised Code: (A) "Infrastructure development" means constructing, upgrading, extending, or any other investment in, or associated with, transmission or distribution facilities that, except as provided for in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, a natural gas company owns and operates. (B)(1) "Infrastructure development costs" means costs associated with an investment...

...ompany may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an infrastructure development rider to recover prudently incurred infrastructure development costs of one or more economic development projects approved under section 4929.163 of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall approve a maximum of one infrastructure development rider per company. (C) The commission shall not accept an ...

...he Revised Code that do not satisfy the requirements of division (D)(1) of this section.

...ompany may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an economic development project for which the company will incur infrastructure development costs. (B) The company shall file the application for project approval prior to beginning the project. (C) The application for project approval, to the extent applicable, shall contain a description of each of the following: (1) The econo...

...de shall file an annual report with the public utilities commission. The report shall do both of the following: (1) Detail the infrastructure development costs related to the applicable economic development project or projects; (2) Set forth the rider rate for the twelve months following the annual report. (B) The commission annually shall submit to the general assembly, in accordance with section 101.68 of the...

...considered used and useful in rendering public utility service for purposes of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code.

...The public utilities commission may, at its discretion, conduct a financial audit of a natural gas company that has established an infrastructure development rider under section 4929.161 of the Revised Code to determine if the infrastructure development costs incurred by the natural gas company and collected pursuant to the rider are in conformance with the commission's orders.

...ilities for distribution service if the public utilities commission determines that treatment is just and reasonable: (a) Any property, equipment, or facilities to enable interconnection with or receipt from any property, equipment, or facilities used to generate, collect, gather, or transport biologically derived methane gas, or to enable the blending or supply of biologically derived methane gas to consumers wit...

...vised Code and with the minimum service requirements established under section 4929.23 of the Revised Code. The standards shall allow flexibility for voluntary aggregation, to encourage market creativity in responding to consumer needs and demands. The rules shall include procedures for biennially renewing certification. (C)(1) The commission may suspend, rescind, or conditionally rescind the certification of any re...

...ocess in this state, by filing with the public utilities commission a document designating that agent. (2) Beginning on the effective date of initial rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, no person shall continue to operate as such retail natural gas supplier unless that person continues to consent to such jurisdiction and service of process in this state and continues to de...

...pecifying the necessary minimum service requirements of a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code regarding the marketing, solicitation, sale, or provision, directly or through its billing and collection agent, of any competitive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification. Rules adopted under this section shall ...

... a minimum, shall include the following requirements regarding the notices required under divisions (A) to (D) of this section: (1) To use clear and unambiguous language in order to enable the customer to make an informed decision; (2) To design the notices in a way to ensure that they cannot be confused with marketing materials. (F) Notwithstanding any provision of section 121.95 of the Revised Code to the co...

...he customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that a natural gas company processes a customer's change in competitive retail natural gas supplier by using customer account information. A customer who consents to a change of supplier shall not be required to provide customer account information to the supplier if the customer provides a valid form of government-issued ...

...0 of the Revised Code shall provide the public utilities commission with such information, regarding a competitive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification, as the commission considers necessary to carry out sections 4929.20 to 4929.24 of the Revised Code. The commission shall take such measures as it considers necessary to protect the confidentiality of any such information. (B) The commi...

...(A)(1) The public utilities commission has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon complaint of any person or complaint or initiative of the commission regarding the provision by a retail natural gas supplier subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code of any service for which it is subject to certification. (2) The commission also has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of...

...(A) Upon the filing of an application by a natural gas company in such form and pursuant to such procedures as shall be prescribed by rule of the commission under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code for the purpose of this division, the commission shall determine the total allowable amount of capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto, of the company to be received as revenues under this division. Suc...

...ority or board shall hold at least two public hearings on the plan. Before the first hearing, the legislative authority or board shall publish notice of the hearings once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall summarize the plan and state the date, time, and location of each hearing. (D) No ...

...hority or board shall hold at least two public hearings on the plan. Before the first hearing, the legislative authority or board shall publish notice of the hearings once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall summarize the plan and state the date, time, and location of each hearing. (C)(1)...

... reached, either party may petition the public utilities commission to resolve the issues.

...(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...

...(A) To the extent, if any, provided for in rules authorized by this section, the total per medicaid day payment rate determined under section 5124.15 of the Revised Code shall not be paid for ICF/IID services that an ICF/IID not designated as an outlier ICF/IID or unit provides to a resident who meets the criteria for admission to a designated outlier ICF/IID or unit, as specified in rules authorized by section...

...The department of developmental disabilities is not required to pay the total per medicaid day payment rates determined under section 5124.15 of the Revised Code for ICF/IID services provided by developmental centers. Instead, the department may determine the medicaid payment rates for developmental centers according to the reasonable cost principles of Title XVIII.

...(A) For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day capital component rate. An ICF/IID's rate for a fiscal year shall equal the sum of the following: (1) The lesser of the following: (a) The sum of all of the following: (i) The ICF/IID's per diem fair rental value rate for the fiscal year as determined under division (B) of this section; (ii) ...

...(A) For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day direct care costs component rate. An ICF/IID's rate shall be determined as follows: (1) Determine the product of the following: (a) The ICF/IID's quarterly case-mix score determined or assigned under section 5124.193 of the Revised Code for the following calendar quarter: (i) For the rate deter...

...(A) As used in sections 5124.191 to 5124.193 of the Revised Code, "ICF/IID resident" includes an individual who is on hospital or therapeutic leave from an ICF/IID. (B) In accordance with rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities shall assess each ICF/IID resident regardless of payment source and compile complete assessment data on the residents. The depar...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall establish six acuity groups for the purpose of assigning case-mix scores to ICF/IID residents. An ICF/IID resident's case-mix score shall be the score of the resident's acuity group as specified in rules authorized by this section. (B) The department shall place each ICF/IID resident into one of the acuity groups. In determining which acuity group an ICF/IID re...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall do both of the following: (1) For each calendar quarter, determine a case-mix score for each ICF/IID using both of the following: (a) The most recent (as of the date the determination is made) resident assessment data compiled and revised for the ICF/IID's residents under section 5124.191 of the Revised Code...

...(A) No change that the department of developmental disabilities makes to either of the following is valid unless the change is applied prospectively and the department complies with division (B) of this section: (1) The department's instructions or guidelines for the resident assessment instrument used to compile or revise assessment data of ICF/IID residents under section 5124.191 of the Revised Code; (2) The me...

...(A) For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day indirect care costs component rate. An ICF/IID's rate shall be the lesser of the individual rate determined under division (B) of this section and the maximum rate determined for the ICF/IID's peer group under division (C) of this section. (B) An ICF/IID's individual rate is the sum of the followin...

...For each fiscal year, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day other protected costs component rate. An ICF/IID's rate shall be the ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable, per diem other protected costs from the applicable cost report year, adjusted for inflation using the following: (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the consumer price index for all...

...(A) For fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine in accordance with division (C) of this section a per medicaid day quality incentive payment for each ICF/IID that earns for the fiscal year at least one point under division (B) of this section. (B) Each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2022, the department, in accordance with rules authoriz...

... and ICF/IID meet all other eligibility requirements for the rate add-on established in rules authorized by this section. (B) An ICF/IID that has been approved by the department of developmental disabilities to provider outlier ICF/IID services under this section shall provide the services in accordance with both of the following: (1) The best practices protocol the department of developmental disabilities determin...

...he provider meets all other eligibility requirements for the rate add-on established in rules adopted under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code. (B) An ICF/IID that has been approved by the department to provide outlier ICF/IID services under this section shall provide the services in accordance with both of the following: (1) The best practices protocol described in division (A)(1) of this section; (2) Require...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 5124.30 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities, in determining whether an ICF/IID's direct care costs and indirect care costs are allowable, shall place no limit on specific categories of reasonable costs other than compensation of owners, compensation of relatives of owners, and compensation of administrators. Compensation cost limits for owners an...

...Except as provided in section 5124.17 of the Revised Code, the costs of goods, services, and facilities, furnished to an ICF/IID provider by a related party are includable in the allowable costs of the provider at the reasonable cost to the related party.

...be incurred by ICFs/IID to comply with requirements of federal or state statutes, rules, or policies enacted or amended after January 1, 1992, or with orders issued by state or local fire authorities.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall not reduce an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter on the basis that the provider charges a lower rate to any resident who is not eligible for medicaid.

...No medicaid payment shall be made to an ICF/IID provider for the day a medicaid recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID, unless the recipient is discharged from the ICF/IID because all of the beds in the ICF/IID are converted from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services pursuant to section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "participation in therapeutic programs" includes visits to potential new residential settings. (B) The department of developmental disabilities shall pay an ICF/IID provider one hundred per cent of the total per medicaid day payment rate determined for the ICF/IID under this chapter to reserve a bed for a resident who is a medicaid recipient if all of the following apply: (1) The recipi...

...Medicaid payments may be made for ICF/IID services provided not later than thirty days after the effective date of an involuntary termination of the ICF/IID that provides the services if the services are provided to a medicaid recipient who is eligible for the services and resided in the ICF/IID before the effective date of the involuntary termination.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall make its best efforts each year to determine ICFs/IID's medicaid payment rates under this chapter in time to pay the rates by August fifteenth of each fiscal year. If the department is unable to calculate the rates so that they can be paid by that date, the department shall pay each provider the rate calculated for the provider's ICFs/IID under those sections a...

...of violations of medicaid certification requirements; (e) Other extreme circumstances specified in rules authorized by this section. (2) An ICF/IID may qualify for a rate increase under this division only if its per diem, actual, allowable costs have increased to a level that exceeds its total rate. An increase under this division is subject to any rate limitations or maximum rates established by this chapter for...

...If an ICF/IID provider properly amends a cost report for an ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Code and the amended report shows that the provider received a lower medicaid payment rate under the original cost report than the provider was entitled to receive, the department of developmental disabilities shall adjust the provider's rate for the ICF/IID prospectively to reflect the corrected information. The...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities 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 Cod...