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...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the medicaid program shall cover remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests, utilizing established current procedural terminology codes (CPT codes) for those procedures for when the patient is in a residence or other off-site location from the patient's medicaid provider. (B) The coverage under division (A) of this section applies only unde...

...(A) As used in this section, "rapid whole genome sequencing" means an investigation of the entire human genome, including coding and non-coding regions and mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid, to identify disease-causing genetic changes, and includes patient-only whole genome sequencing and duo and trio whole genome sequencing of the patient and biological parent or parents. (B) Beginning one year after the effecti...

...ration recommended in the United States public health service clinical practice guidelines on treating tobacco use and dependence; (b) Services associated with more than two attempts to quit using tobacco within a twelve-month period. (C) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish standards and procedures for approving the forms of tobacco cessatio...

...The medicaid program may cover a health care service that a pharmacist provides to a medicaid recipient in accordance with Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code, including any of the following services: (A) Managing drug therapy under a consult agreement pursuant to section 4729.39 of the Revised Code; (B) Administering immunizations in accordance with section 4729.41 of the Revised Code; (C) Administering drugs ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Community mental health services provider or facility" means a community mental health services provider or facility that has its community mental health services certified by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code or by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. (2) "Mental health pr...

...The medicaid program may cover one or more state plan home and community-based services that the department of medicaid selects for coverage. A medicaid recipient of any age may receive a state plan home and community-based service if the recipient has countable income not exceeding two hundred twenty-five per cent of the federal poverty line, has a medical need for the service, and meets all other eligibility requir...

...The medicaid program may cover tobacco cessation services in addition to the services that must be covered under section 5164.10 of the Revised Code or may exclude coverage of additional tobacco cessation services.

...The medicaid program shall not cover prescribed drugs for treatment of erectile dysfunction.

...The departments of developmental disabilities and medicaid may approve, reduce, deny, or terminate a medicaid service included in the individual service plan developed for a medicaid recipient with a developmental disability who is eligible for medicaid case management services. If either department approves, reduces, denies, or terminates a service, that department shall timely notify the medicaid recipient that the...

...The department of medicaid shall establish a combination of written and oral methods designed to provide information about healthcheck to all persons eligible for the program or their parents or guardians. The department shall ensure that its methods of providing information are effective. Each entity that distributes or accepts applications for medicaid shall prominently display a notice that complies with t...

...Not later than December 31, 2018, the department of medicaid shall develop and implement revisions to the system by which persons and government entities become and remain medicaid providers so that there is a single system of records for the system and the persons and government entities do not have to submit duplicate data to the state to become or remain medicaid providers for any component or aspect of a componen...

...The department of medicaid shall establish a credentialing program that includes a credentialing committee to review the competence, professional conduct, and quality of care provided by medicaid providers. Any activities performed by the credentialing committee shall be considered activities of a peer review committee of a health care entity and shall be subject to sections 2305.25 to 2305.253 of the Revised Code....

...No person or government entity may participate in the medicaid program as a medicaid provider without a valid provider agreement with the department of medicaid.

...(A) As used in this section, "group practice" has the same meaning as in section 4731.65 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of medicaid shall establish a process by which a physician assistant may enter into a provider agreement. (C)(1) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, a claim for medicaid payment for a medicaid service provided by a physician assistant to a medicaid recipient may be submitted ...

...(A) For the purpose of raising funds necessary to pay the expenses of implementing the provider screening requirements of subpart E of 42 C.F.R. Part 455 and except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of medicaid shall collect an application fee from a medicaid provider before doing any of the following: (1) Entering into a provider agreement with a medicaid provider that seeks initial enroll...

...(A) Each medicaid provider agreement shall expire not later than five years from its effective date. If a provider agreement entered into before the effective date of this amendment does not have a time limit, the department of medicaid shall convert the agreement to a provider agreement with a time limit. (B) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code as necessary to impleme...

...(A) The medicaid director may do the following for any reason permitted or required by federal law and when the director determines that the action is in the best interests of medicaid recipients or the state: (1) Deny, refuse to revalidate, suspend, or terminate a provider agreement; (2) Exclude an individual, provider of services or goods, or other entity from participation in the medicaid program. (B) No ...

...ucted pursuant to this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The person who is the subject of the criminal records check or the person's representative; (2) The medicaid director and the staff of the department who are involved in the administration of the medicaid program; (3) The depa...

...ction 109.5721 of the Revised Code is a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Such a report or notice shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The person who is the subject of the criminal records check or the person's representative; (2) The medicaid director and the staff of the department who are involved in the administration of the medicaid pro...

...equest made under this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The applicant or employee who is the subject of the criminal records check or the representative of the applicant or employee; (2) The chief administrator of the waiver agency that requires the applicant or employee to request th...

...(A) As used in this section, "owner" means any person having at least five per cent ownership in a medicaid provider. (B)(1) No medicaid provider shall do any of the following: (a) By deception, obtain or attempt to obtain payments under the medicaid program to which the provider is not entitled pursuant to the provider's provider agreement, or the rules of the federal government or the medicaid director relati...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Credible allegation of fraud" has the same meaning as in 42 C.F.R. 455.2, except that for purposes of this section any reference in that regulation to the "state" or the "state medicaid agency" means the department of medicaid. (2) "Disqualifying indictment" means an indictment of a medicaid provider or its officer, authorized agent, associate, manager, employee, or, if the pro...

...(A) The department of medicaid may suspend a medicaid provider's provider agreement without prior notice if the department has evidence that the provider presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the health, safety, or welfare of medicaid recipients. The department also shall suspend all medicaid payments to the medicaid provider for services rendered, regardless of the date that the services were rendered, ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Party" has the same meaning as in division (G) of section 119.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Revalidate" means to approve a medicaid provider's continued enrollment as a medicaid provider in accordance with the revalidation process established in rules authorized by section 5164.32 of the Revised Code. (B) This section does not apply to either of the following: (1) Any acti...

...In any action taken by the department of medicaid under section 5164.38 or 5164.57 of the Revised Code or any other state statute governing the medicaid program that requires the department to give notice of an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, if the department gives notice of the opportunity for a hearing but the medicaid provider or other entity subject to the not...

...The medicaid director's rules governing medicaid are binding on other state agencies and political subdivisions that administer one or more components of the medicaid program, or one or more aspects of a component, pursuant to contracts entered into under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code. No state agency or political subdivision may establish, by rule or otherwise, a policy governing medicaid that is incons...

...For the purpose of the "Social Security Act," section 1902(a)(5), 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(5), the department of medicaid shall act as the single state agency to supervise the administration of the medicaid program. As the single state agency, the department shall comply with 42 C.F.R. 431.10(e) and all other federal requirements applicable to the single state agency.

...(A) The medicaid director may do all of the following as necessary for the department of medicaid to fulfill the duties it has, as the single state agency for the medicaid program, under the "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003" Pub. L. No. 108-173: (1) Adopt rules in accordance with division (B) of this section; (2) Assign duties to county departments of job and family ser...

...As used in this section, "state agency" has the same meaning as in section 9.23 of the Revised Code. No provision of Title LI of the Revised Code or any other law of this state that incorporates any provision of federal medicaid law, or that may be construed as requiring the state, a state agency, or any state official or employee to comply with that federal provision, shall be construed as creating a cause of...

...The medicaid program shall be implemented in accordance with all of the following: (A) The medicaid state plan approved by the United States secretary of health and human services, including amendments to the plan approved by the United States secretary; (B) Federal medicaid waivers granted by the United States secretary, including amendments to waivers approved by the United States secretary; (C) Other type...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other state statute except for section 5164.061 of the Revised Code, no component, or aspect of a component, of the medicaid program shall be implemented without all of the following: (1) Subject to division (B) of this section, if the component, or aspect of the component, requires federal approval, receipt of the federal approval; (2) Sufficient federal financial participation for the co...

...The medicaid director shall seek federal approval for all components, and aspects of components, of the medicaid program for which federal approval is needed, except that the director is permitted rather than required to seek federal approval for components, and aspects of components, that state statutes permit rather than require be implemented. Federal approval shall be sought in the following forms as approp...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, and in accordance with section 5166.03 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall not seek or implement an amendment to the medicaid state plan or a medicaid waiver under section 1115 or 1915 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1315 and 42 U.S.C. 1396n, that would expand medicaid coverage to any additional individuals or class of individuals or ...

...The medicaid director may conduct reviews of the medicaid program. The reviews may include physical inspections of records and sites where medicaid services are provided and interviews of medicaid providers and medicaid recipients. If the director determines pursuant to a review that a person or government entity has violated a rule governing the medicaid program, the director may establish a corrective action ...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall enter into an agreement with the department of administrative services for the department of administrative services to contract through competitive selection pursuant to section 125.07 of the Revised Code with a vendor to perform an assessment of the data collection and data warehouse functions of the medicaid data warehouse system, including the ability to link the data sets of ...

...(A) The medicaid director shall enter into a contract with one or more persons to receive and process, on the director's behalf, requests for medicaid recipient or claims payment data, data from reports of audits conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code, or extracts or analyses of any of the foregoing data made by persons who intend to use the items prepared pursuant to the requests for commercial or acad...

...(A) Not later than the thirty-first day of December of each year, the department of medicaid shall prepare a report on the department's efforts to minimize fraud, waste, and abuse in the medicaid program. The report shall include all of the following for the most recently concluded state fiscal year: (1) Improper medicaid payments and expenditures, including the individual and total dollar amounts for claims that w...

...Not less than once each year, the medicaid director shall submit a report on the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program to the governor and the general assembly. The copy to the general assembly shall be submitted in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code. The report shall include all of the following information: (A) The number of individuals who participated in the medicaid buy-in for ...

... shall make the report available to the public.

...(A) As used in this section, "stillbirth" has the same meaning as in section 5180.12 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of medicaid shall create an infant mortality scorecard. The scorecard shall report all of the following: (1) The performance of the fee-for-service component of medicaid and each medicaid managed care organization on population health measures, including the infant mortality rate, preterm...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall conduct periodic reviews to determine the barriers that medicaid recipients face in gaining full access to interventions intended to reduce tobacco use, prevent prematurity, and promote optimal birth spacing. The first review shall occur not later than sixty days after April 6, 2017. Thereafter, reviews shall be conducted every six months. The department shall prepare a report tha...

...Annually, the department of medicaid shall conduct a cost savings study of the medicaid program and prepare a report based on that study recommending measures to reduce costs under that program. The department shall submit its report to the governor.

...(A) The department of medicaid shall periodically evaluate the success that members of the expansion eligibility group have with the following: (1) Obtaining employer-sponsored health insurance coverage; (2) Improving health conditions that would otherwise prevent or inhibit stable employment; (3) Improving the conditions of their employment, including duration and hours of employment. (B) For the purpose...

...(A) The medicaid director shall immediately provide notice in accordance with this section if the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services does any of the following related to a quarterly medicaid statement of expenditures for medical assistance programs form that is submitted by the department of medicaid: (1) Determines that the form has a variance of expenditures of eight per cent or greater; (...

...(A) As used in this section; "Agent" and "contractor" include any agent, contractor, subcontractor, or other person who, on behalf of an entity, furnishes or authorizes the furnishing of medicaid services, performs billing or coding functions, or is involved in monitoring of health care that an entity provides. "Employee" includes any officer or employee (including management employees) of an entity. "Entity...

...A government entity that administers one or more components of the medicaid program and has reasonable cause to believe that an instance of fraud, waste, or abuse has occurred in the medicaid program shall inform the department of medicaid. The department shall collect the information in the medicaid data warehouse system established under section 5162.11 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The department of medicaid shall institute cost-sharing requirements for the medicaid program. The department shall not institute cost-sharing requirements in a manner that does either of the following: (1) Disproportionately impacts the ability of medicaid recipients with chronic illnesses to obtain medically necessary medicaid services; (2) Violates section 5164.09 or 5164.10 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) N...

...(A) As used in this section and section 5162.211 of the Revised Code: (1) "Estate" includes both of the following: (a) All real and personal property and other assets to be administered under Title XXI of the Revised Code and property that would be administered under that title if not for section 2113.03 or 2113.031 of the Revised Code; (b) Any other real and personal property and other assets in which an in...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 5162.23 of the Revised Code, no lien may be imposed against the property of an individual before the individual's death on account of medicaid services correctly paid or to be paid on the individual's behalf. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of medicaid may impose a lien against the real property of a medi...

...The department of medicaid shall certify amounts due under the medicaid estate recovery program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code to the attorney general pursuant to section 131.02 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may enter into a contract with any person or government entity to collect the amounts due on behalf of the attorney general. The attorney general, in entering into a cont...