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...(A) For the purposes specified in section 5168.25 of the Revised Code and subject to section 5168.28 of the Revised Code, there is hereby imposed an assessment on all hospitals each assessment program year. The amount of a hospital's assessment for an assessment program year shall equal the applicable assessment percentage of the hospital's total facility costs for the period of time specified in division (B) of this...

...(A) Before or during each assessment 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...

...Each hospital shall pay the amount it is assessed under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code in accordance with 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 deter...

...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.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the hospital assessment fund. All installment payments made by hospitals under section 5168.23 of the Revised Code and all recoveries the department of medicaid makes under section 5168.24 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The department shall use money in the fund to pay for the costs ...

...ram for children and youth with special health care needs established under section 3701.023 of the Revised Code; (iv) Services provided under the maternal and child health services block grant established under Title V of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 701 et seq. (b) Any other category of hospital costs the director deems appropriate under federal law and regulations governing the medicaid program. (...

...The medicaid director shall implement the assessment imposed by section 5168.21 of the Revised Code in a manner that does not cause a reduction in federal financial participation for the medicaid program under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w).

...If the United States secretary of health and human services determines that the assessment imposed by section 5168.21 of the Revised Code is an impermissible health care-related tax under the "Social Security Act," section 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 hosp...

...y portion of the costs of a broad-based health-care-related tax. If the indirect guarantee percentage changes during a fiscal year, the indirect guarantee percentage is the following: (1) For the part of the fiscal year before the change takes effect, the percentage in effect before the change; (2) For the part of the fiscal year beginning with the date the indirect guarantee percentage changes, the new percent...

...(A) The franchise permit fee rate shall be determined for each fiscal year as follows: (1) Determine the estimated total net patient revenues for all nursing homes and hospital long-term care units for the fiscal year; (2) Multiply the estimated total net patient revenues determined under division (A)(1) of this section by the lesser of the following: (a) The indirect guarantee percentage; (b) Six per cent....

...f the Revised Code is an impermissible health care-related tax under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), take all necessary actions to cease implementation of sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code in accordance with rules adopted under section 5168.56 of the Revised Code.

...pply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a waiver under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w)(3)(E), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w)(3)(E), as necessary to do both of the following regarding the franchise permit fee assessed under section 5168.42 of the Revised Code: (1) Reduce the franchise permit fee rate to zero dollars for each nursing home licensed under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 of ...

...If the United States secretary of health and human services approves the waiver sought under section 5168.43 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 wai...

...(A) If the United States secretary of health and human services approves the waiver sought under section 5168.43 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...

...The department of health shall do all of the following: (A) For the purpose of the determinations made under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5168.42 of the Revised Code and not later than the first day of each June, report to the department of medicaid the following: (1) For each nursing home, the number of beds in the nursing home licensed on the preceding first day of May under section 3721.02 or 3721.09 ...

...(A) Not later than the fifteenth day of September 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, electroni...

...(A) Not later than the last day of February 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 hos...

...If a nursing home or hospital undergoes a change of operator during a fiscal year, the responsibility for paying the franchise permit fee that was determined for the nursing home or hospital under section 5168.47 of the Revised Code, or redetermined for the nursing home or hospital under section 5168.48 of the Revised Code, for that fiscal year shall be divided proportionally. The exiting operator shall be responsibl...

...No nursing home or hospital shall directly bill its residents for the franchise permit fee paid under section 5168.47 or 5168.48 of the Revised Code or otherwise directly pass the fee through to its residents.

...If a nursing home or hospital fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment 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.

...(A) In addition to assessing a penalty pursuant to section 5168.51 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may do any of the following if a nursing facility or hospital fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due: (1) Withhold an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.51 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the nu...

...is section, the department shall hold a public hearing in Columbus not later than thirty days after the date the department receives the request for an appeal. The department shall, not later than ten days before the date of the hearing, notify, electronically or by United States postal service, the nursing home or hospital of the date, time, and place of the hearing. The department may hear all the requested appeals...

...ition of surveyors at the department of health, and to fund quality and consumer information resources. Money in the fund may also be used for the residential state supplement program established under section 5119.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Any money remaining in the nursing home franchise permit fee fund after payments specified in division (A) of this section are made shall be retained in the fund. Any interes...

...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...

...d by those sections is an impermissible health-care related tax under the "Social Security Act," section 1903(w), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w); (B) Establish any requirements or procedures the director considers necessary to implement sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code.