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...A home care attendant who provides home care attendant services to a consumer in accordance with the authorizing health care professional's authorization does not engage in the practice of nursing as a registered nurse or in the practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse in violation of section 4723.03 of the Revised Code. A consumer or the consumer's authorized representative shall report to the appro...

...A consumer who is an adult may select an individual to act on the consumer's behalf for purposes regarding home care attendant services by submitting a written notice of the consumer's selection of an authorized representative to the appropriate director. The notice shall specifically identify the individual the consumer selects as authorized representative and may limit what the authorized representative may d...

...If the department of medicaid terminates the 209(b) option, the department shall establish a medicaid waiver component under which an individual who has cystic fibrosis and is enrolled in the program for children and youth with special health care needs by the department of health under section 3701.023 of the Revised Code or the program the department of health administers pursuant to division (G) of that section ma...

...(A) The medicaid director shall establish a medicaid waiver component under which an individual eligible for medicaid on the basis of being included in the expansion eligibility group must satisfy at least one of the following requirements to be able to enroll in medicaid as part of the expansion eligibility group: (1) Be at least fifty-five years of age; (2) Be employed; (3) Be enrolled in school or an occu...

...(A) As used in sections 5166.40 to 5166.409 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adult" means an individual who is at least eighteen years of age. (2) "Buckeye account" means a modified health savings account established under section 5166.402 of the Revised Code. (3) "Contribution" means the amounts that an individual contributes to the individual's buckeye account and are contributed to the account on the individual's beha...

...A healthy Ohio program participant shall enroll in a comprehensive health plan offered by a managed care organization under contract with the department of medicaid. All of the following apply to the health plan: (A) It shall cover physician, hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, pregnancy-related, mental health, pharmaceutical, laboratory, and other health care services the medicaid director determines necessary...

...(A)(1) A buckeye account shall be established for each healthy Ohio program participant. Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, a participant's buckeye account shall consist of both of the following: (a) The medicaid funds deposited into the account under division (B) of this section and division (A) of section 5166.404 of the Revised Code; (b) Contributions made by the participant and on the participant's beh...

...(A) A managed care organization that offers the health plan in which a healthy Ohio program participant enrolls shall issue a debit swipe card to be used to pay only for the following: (1) Until the amount of the noncore portion of the participant's buckeye account is zero, the costs of health care services that are covered by the health plan and provided to the participant by a provider participating in the health ...

...(A) The medicaid director shall establish a system under which points are awarded in accordance with this section to healthy Ohio program debit swipe cards. One dollar of medicaid funds shall be deposited into a healthy Ohio program participant's buckeye account for each point awarded to the participant under this section. (B) The director shall provide a one-time award of twenty points to a healthy Ohio program par...

...(A) A healthy Ohio program participant's participation in the program shall cease if any of the following applies: (1) Unless the participant is pregnant, a monthly installment payment to the participant's buckeye account is sixty days late. (2) The participant fails to submit documentation needed for a redetermination of the participant's eligibility for medicaid before the sixty-first day after the documentation ...

...If a healthy Ohio program participant exhausts the annual or lifetime payout limits specified in division (D) of section 5166.401 of the Revised Code, the participant shall be transferred to the fee-for-service component of medicaid or the care management system. A participant who exhausts the annual payout limit for a year shall resume participation in the healthy Ohio program at the beginning of the immediately fol...

...(A) If a healthy Ohio program participant ceases to qualify for medicaid due to increased family countable income and purchases a health insurance policy or obtains health care coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored health plan, the amount remaining in the former participant's buckeye account shall be transferred to an account to be known as a bridge account. The amount so transferred may be used only to pay f...

...Each county department of job and family services shall offer to refer to a local board each healthy Ohio program participant who resides in the county served by the county department and is either unemployed or employed for less than an average of twenty hours per week. The referral shall include information about the workforce development activities available from the local board. A participant may refuse to accept...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) For the purpose of division (F)(1)(a) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code, establish requirements regarding preventative health services for healthy Ohio program participants. The requirements may differ for participants of different ages and genders. (B) For the purpose of division (G)(2) of sectio...

...(A) As used in this section, "medical assistance program" and "refugee medical assistance program" have the same meanings as in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The medicaid director shall establish a medicaid waiver component to provide continuous medicaid enrollment for children from birth through three years of age. A child who is determined eligible for medical assistance under Title XIX of the "Social...

...described in section 340B(a)(4) of the "Public Health Service Act," 42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4) and includes any pharmacy under contract with the entity to dispense drugs on behalf of the entity. (B) "Affiliated company" means an entity, including a third-party payer or specialty pharmacy, with common ownership, members of a board of directors, or managers, or that is a parent company, subsidiary company, jointly held com...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...As part of the medicaid program, the department of medicaid shall establish a care management system. The department shall implement the system in some or all counties. The department shall designate the medicaid recipients who are required or permitted to participate in the care management system. Those who shall be required to participate in the system include medicaid recipients who receive cognitive behavioral ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Children's care network" means any of the following: (a) A children's hospital; (b) A group of children's hospitals; (c) A group of pediatric physicians. (2) "Children's hospital" has the same meaning as in section 2151.86 of the Revised Code. (B) If the department of medicaid includes in the care management system, pursuant to section 5167.03 of the Revised Code, individua...

...The department of medicaid shall include alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services covered by medicaid in the care management system.

...The department of medicaid may include prescribed drugs covered by the medicaid program in the care management system.

...If the medicaid program covers the pharmacist services described in section 5164.14 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may include the services in the care management system.

...The department of medicaid may enter into contracts with managed care organizations under which the organizations are authorized to provide, or arrange for the provision of, health care services to medicaid recipients who are required or permitted to participate in the care management system.

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the department of medicaid or its actuary shall base the hospital inpatient capital payment portion of the payment made to a medicaid managed care organization on data for services provided to all of the organization's enrollees, as reported by hospitals on relevant cost reports submitted pursuant to rules adopted under section 5167.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The hospit...

...In addition to the managed care performance payment program created under section 5167.30 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall establish performance metrics that will be used to evaluate and compare how medicaid managed care organizations perform under the contracts entered into under section 5167.10 of the Revised Code. The performance metrics may include financial incentives and penalties. The de...

...All rules, regulations, stipulations, and agreements, declared unlawful by sections 4973.02 to 4973.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are void. A corporation, association, or person violating, or aiding or abetting the violation of such sections shall forfeit to the person thus wronged or deprived of his rights, not less than fifty nor over five hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by a civil action.

...No railroad company knowingly or negligently shall use or operate a car or locomotive that is defective, or upon which the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive are in any manner defective. If an employee of such company receives injury by reason of a defect in a car or locomotive, or the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive, owned and operated or being operated by such...

...In actions against a railroad company for personal injury to a person while in its employ, or for death resulting from such injury, arising from the negligence of such company or any of its officers or employees, in addition to other liability, it shall be held that every person in the employ of such company, with actual power or authority to direct or control another employee is not the fellow servant, but superior ...

...Every railroad company operating a railroad in whole or part within this state is liable for all damages sustained by any of its employees by reason of personal injury or death of such employee: (A) When such injury or death is caused by a defect in any locomotive, engine, car, handcar, rail, track, machinery, or appliance required by such company to be used by its employees in and about the business of their employ...

...In all actions against a railroad company, operating a railroad in whole or part within this state, for personal injury to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that he was guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when such negligence was slight and that of the employer greater in comparison. But the damages must be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount...

...No person or company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, directly or by or through a representative, shall knowingly suffer or permit a person to run or in any capacity to operate a railroad locomotive on any part of its railroad in this state who is intoxicated or in the habit of becoming intoxicated, or knowingly continue the employment of a person in such capacity after he becomes or is intoxic...

...No company operating a railroad over thirty miles in length or an interurban railroad or street railway over four miles in length shall permit a conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, or trainman on a train, a telegraph operator, or a conductor or motorman on a street railway, who has worked as such for fifteen consecutive hours, again to go on duty or perform work until he has had at least eight hours' rest, excep...

...No person or company shall operate in this state any electric or street railway car or interurban railroad car unless it is provided at all times during operation with seats for the motorman and conductor. A violation of this section constitutes a violation of it by the president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation. An offense on any calendar day and as to any car is a s...

...No officer, agent, or employee of a company operating a railroad, except the superintendent, general managing agent, or a receiver of the company, may sell or dispose of worn or scrap metal, iron, brass, or other metal owned by such company. All sales and barter of such scraps or other metals made by any other officer, agent, or employee are void. No such superintendent, managing agent, or receiver shall sell or disp...

...The person, company, or firm to whom is offered for sale, pledge, or trade, worn or used links, pins, journal bearings, or other worn, used, or detached appendages of railroad equipment, or scrap metal of iron, brass, or steel appertaining to such equipment or to a railroad track, before purchasing or dealing in it, shall ascertain whether the ownership thereof is lawfully derived, by bill of sale or otherwise, from ...

...By its proper officer or agent, or by the receiver of such company, a railroad company may claim to be the general owner of and replevy any of the metals or articles mentioned in section 4973.14 of the Revised Code, and metals with which they may have been confused, found in the possession of a person, firm, or company, when there is good reason to believe that such metals or articles were unlawfully taken from such ...

...If a railroad company or its receiver replevies property under section 4973.15 of the Revised Code without reasonable cause to believe that it was unlawfully taken from some company or its receiver, such company or receiver shall be liable to the party entitled to such property in any sum not exceeding double the value of the property so replevied, in addition to such damages as such party sustains thereby.

...wing conditions: (a) Be operated by a public hospital agency or nonprofit hospital agency; (b) Be a for-profit hospital that, before converting to for-profit status, was operated by a nonprofit hospital agency employing police officers appointed under this division. (2) No person who is appointed as a police officer under division (D)(1) of this section shall engage in any duties or activities as a police offic...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The secretary of state shall not appoint or commission a person as a police officer for a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or association of banks, savings and loan associations, or credit unions under division (A) of section 4973.17 of the Revised Code; for a railroad company under division ...

...Before entering upon the duties of his office, each policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall take and subscribe an oath of office which shall be indorsed on his commission, and said commission with the oath shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state who shall charge and collect a fee of one dollar for such recording. Policemen so appointed and commissioned shall severally ...

...make needful regulations to promote the public convenience and safety in and about its depots, stations, and grounds, not inconsistent with law, and print and post such regulations conspicuously upon its depots or station buildings. Policemen appointed under such sections shall enforce and compel obedience to such regulations. The keeper of jails, lockups, or station houses in each county shall receive persons arrest...

...Except while acting in the discharge of duty as a detective for the railroad, every policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a metallic shield with the word "police" and the name of the railroad for which he is appointed inscribed on it.

...The compensation of policemen appointed or commissioned as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the company for which they respectively are appointed, and at such rates as are agreed upon by the parties.

...When a company no longer requires the services of a policeman appointed as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised code, it may file in the office of the secretary of state a notice to that effect signed by its authorized officer, which notice shall be noted by the secretary of state upon the margin of the record where the commission is recorded, and thereupon the power of such policeman shall cease. No charge sh...

...(A) A conductor of any train carrying passengers or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers, and a ticket agent employed in or about a railroad or interurban railroad station, while on duty on the train or cars, or in or about the station, who has probable cause to believe that a person has committed an offense may detain the person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time within ...

...When a passenger is guilty of disorderly conduct, uses obscene language, or plays a game of cards or chance for money or other thing of value on a passenger train or the cars of an interurban railroad carrying passengers, the conductor of such train or cars shall stop his train or cars at the place where such offense is committed, or at the next stopping place for such train or cars and eject such passenger from the ...

...In no case shall the liability of a railroad company for damages caused by the conduct of its conductor be affected by section 4973.23 or 4973.24 of the Revised Code.

...No conductor having charge of a passenger train or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers within this state shall willfully neglect his duty as required by sections 4973.24 and 4973.25 of the Revised Code, or fail to use all the means in his power to carry out such sections. Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligence of official duty.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4973.12 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days. (B) Whoever violates section 4973.26 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.

...As used in sections 4981.01 to 4981.34 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means, in addition to the meaning given that term in division (C) of section 1.59 of the Revised Code, any unit of local government, any local or regional transportation authority, and any private corporation or organization. (B) "Rail property" means any asset or right that is used or is useful in providing rail service, including tracks, rol...