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...As used in this section and in section 3701.861 of the Revised Code: (A) "Anatomic pathology services" means all of the following: (1) Histopathology or surgical pathology; (2) Cytopathology; (3) Hematology; (4) Subcellular or molecular pathology; (5) Blood banking services performed by pathologists. (B) "Assignment of benefits" means the transfer of health care coverage reimbursement benefits or other righ...

...(A) No clinical laboratory shall present or cause to be presented a claim, bill, or demand for payment for anatomic pathology services to any person or entity other than the following: (1) The patient who receives the services or another individual, such as a parent, spouse, or guardian, who is responsible for the patient's bills; (2) A responsible insurer or other third-party payor of a patient who re...

...shall propose, modify, amend, and adopt rules, standards, guidelines, and official policies which are consistent with federal law, as it deems necessary to implement the capital expenditures review program. (C) The director shall make all findings and recommendations required by federal law and shall give due consideration to the findings, reviews, and comments of areawide health planning agencies performing r...

.... (E) The trustees may: (1) Adopt rules and bylaws consistent with subsection 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2) Employ a staff and retain or contract with attorneys, financial consultants, and accounting experts as are necessary in its judgment to carry out this section; (3) Seek and accept funding from any private or public sour...

...The director of health, with participation from the state medical board and board of nursing, shall collaborate with medical, nursing, and physician assistant schools or programs in this state, as well as medical residency and fellowship programs in this state, to develop and implement appropriate curricula in those schools and programs designed to prepare primary care and women's health care physicians, advanced pra...

...lable to the public a toll-free patient safety telephone line. The department may make the toll-free patient safety telephone line available by maintaining a toll-free telephone line specifically for accepting calls regarding patient safety or by using a toll-free telephone line that the department maintains for accepting calls regarding other matters. The department shall accept calls placed through the toll-free ...

...(A) As used in this section, "direct care" and "home health agency" have the same meanings as in section 3740.01 of the Revised Code. (B) For the purpose of identifying jobs that are in demand in this state under section 6301.11 of the Revised Code, direct care provided by a home health agency shall be considered a targeted industry sector as identified by the governor's office of workforce transformation. (C) Th...

...As used in sections 3701.921 to 3701.929 of the Revised Code: (A) "Advanced practice registered nurse" has the same meaning as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Patient centered medical home education advisory group" means the entity established under section 3701.924 of the Revised Code. (C) "Patient centered medical home education program" means the program established under section 3701.921 of the Re...

...There is hereby established the patient centered medical home education program in the department of health. For the purpose of advancing education in the patient centered medical home model of care, the director of health may implement and administer the program pursuant to sections 3701.922 to 3701.929 of the Revised Code. The patient centered medical home model of care is an enhanced model of primary care in...

...he program. (B) The director may adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer the patient centered medical home education program, including rules that define what constitutes a "patient centered medical home" for purposes of an entity authorized to provide care coordination services. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...(A) To the extent that funds are available, the director of health shall establish the patient centered medical home education pilot project. If the director establishes the project, all of the following apply: (1) The director shall select practices led by physicians and primary care practices led by advanced practice registered nurses to participate in the project. The director may consider the recommendati...

...(A) The patient centered medical home education advisory group is hereby created for the purpose of advising the director of health on the implementation and administration of the patient centered medical home education program. The advisory group shall develop and provide to the director a set of expected outcomes for the pilot project. The advisory group shall consider and provide other recommendations to th...

...(A) The patient centered medical home education advisory group shall accept applications for inclusion in the patient centered medical home education pilot project from primary care practices with educational affiliations, as determined by the advisory group, with one or more of the following: (1) The Boonshoft school of medicine at Wright state university; (2) The university of Toledo college of medicine; ...

...(A) To be eligible for inclusion in the patient centered medical home education pilot project, a primary care practice led by physicians shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Consist of physicians who are board-certified in family medicine, general pediatrics, or internal medicine, as those designations are issued by a medical specialty certifying board recognized by the American board of medical special...

...The director of health shall enter into a contract with each primary care practice selected by the director for inclusion in the patient centered medical home education pilot project. The contract shall specify the terms and conditions for inclusion in the pilot project, including a requirement that the practice provide comprehensive, coordinated primary care services to patients and serve as the patients' medi...

...(A) The director of health shall collaborate with medical, nursing, and physician assistant schools or programs in this state to develop appropriate curricula designed to prepare primary care physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to practice within the patient centered medical home model of care. In developing the curricula, the director and the schools or programs shall include al...

...(A) If the director of health establishes the patient centered medical home education pilot project, the director shall prepare reports of its findings and recommendations from the pilot project. Each report shall include an evaluation of the learning opportunities generated by the pilot project, the physicians and advanced practice registered nurses trained in the pilot project, the costs of the pilot project,...

...Subject to available funds, the director of health shall establish the Ohio violent death reporting system to collect and maintain information, data, and records regarding violent deaths in Ohio.

...The director of health, through the Ohio violent death reporting system, shall do all of the following regarding violent death information, data, and records maintained in the system: (A) Monitor the incidence and causes of the various types of violent deaths; (B) Make appropriate epidemiologic studies of the violent deaths; (C) Analyze trends and patterns in, and circumstances related to, the violent deaths; ...

...The data collection model used by the Ohio violent death reporting system shall follow the data collection model used by the United States centers for disease control and prevention national violent death reporting system and any other data collection model set forth by the director of health pursuant to section 3701.934 of the Revised Code.

...The director of health, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following: (A) Specify the types of violent deaths that shall be included in the Ohio violent death reporting system; (B) Specify the information, data, and records to be collected for use by the Ohio violent death reporting system; (C) Specify the sources from which the information, data...

...The director of health shall collect information about violent deaths in Ohio only from existing sources related to violent crimes and shall not conduct independent criminal investigations in order to obtain information, data, or records for use by the Ohio violent death reporting system.

...At the request of the director of health, every department, agency, and political subdivision of the state shall provide information, data, records, and otherwise assist in the execution of sections 3701.93 to 3701.9314 of the Revised Code.

...At the request of the director of health, any individual or entity not specified in section 3701.936 of the Revised Code, at the individual's or entity's discretion, may provide information, data, records, and otherwise assist in the execution of sections 3701.93 to 3701.9314 of the Revised Code. Any information, data, and records provided to the director by any other individual or entity shall contain only inf...

...Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public social service agency, or public agency that provides services to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, coroner, or public entity that provided services to an individual whose death is the type of death specified by the director of health under section 3701.934 of the Revised Code shall provide infor...