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...Whoever violates division (A) of section 4761.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense. On a second offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. On each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates division (B)(2) or (C) of section 4761.14 of the Revised Code is guilty of failure to report criminal conduct o...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Medicare" means the program established by Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended. (B) "Balance billing" means charging or collecting from a medicare beneficiary an amount in excess of the medicare reimbursement rate for medicare-covered services or supplies provided to a medicare beneficiary, except when medicare is the secondary ...

...No health care practitioner, and no person that employs any health care practitioner, shall balance bill for any supplies or service provided to a medicare beneficiary.

...lleged violation by reimbursing the medicare beneficiary or crediting the beneficiary's account in an amount specified by the department; (3) If the person named in the complaint does not choose to correct the alleged violation, giving the person notice and a reasonable opportunity for an adjudication hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (C) When the department finds, pursuant to division (B...

...(A) Health care practitioners and their employers shall make available to the department of health to inspect and copy, medical, professional, financial, and business records that are reasonably related to determining whether the practitioner or employer has violated section 4769.02 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall fail to comply with division (A) of this section.

...In investigating possible violations of section 4769.02 of the Revised Code or conducting hearings under section 4769.03 of the Revised Code, the department of health may administer oaths, order the taking of depositions, and issue subpoenas compelling attendance of witnesses or production of documents. The subpoenas shall be served in the same manner as subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum issued for a trial of a civ...

...ntial evidence that no bona fide health care practitioner-patient relationship exists. When the department publicly reprimands a violator pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code, it shall not make public the name or any other identifying information about a patient.

...vision (B) of that section. If a health care practitioner or employer elected a hearing under division (B) of that section and was found not to have violated section 4769.02 of the Revised Code, the department of health may pay the health care practitioner's or employer's reasonable costs, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, including attorneys' fees, associated with the conduct of the investigation and adjud...

...Unless a judicial appeal is pending, all monetary penalties imposed under division (C)(3) or (D) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code and all costs ordered to be paid pursuant to section 4769.08 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the department of health not later than thirty days after the department issues the adjudication order imposing the penalties or ordering the payment of costs. The department shall depos...

...orney general may, on behalf of the medicare beneficiary the person was ordered to repay, commence a civil action in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, the county in which the person resides, or the county in which the person's principal place of business is located to obtain a judgment ordering the person to repay the amount specified in division (C)(2) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code plus the inte...

...ublic school but is enrolled in a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home or receives child care from a certified in-home aide. (2) "In the process of being immunized" means having received at least the first dose of an immunization sequence and complying with the immunization intervals or catch-up schedule prescribed by the director of health. (B) Except as p...

...blishing minimum requirements for child care centers. The rules shall include the requirements set forth in sections 5104.032 to 5104.034 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in section 5104.07 of the Revised Code, the rules shall not change the square footage requirements of section 5104.032 of the Revised Code or the maximum number of children per care staff member and maximum group size requirements of section ...

...rposes of this chapter require a health care professional to perform a physical examination, the rules shall include as a health care professional a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife.

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code, the director of children and youth shall not regulate in any way under this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, instruction in religious or moral doctrines, beliefs, or values.

...outh is responsible for licensing child care centers, type A family child care homes, and type B family child care homes. Each entity operating a head start program shall meet the criteria for, and be licensed as, a child care center. The director is responsible for the enforcement of this chapter and of rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter. No person, firm, organization, institution, or agency shall operate...

...of children and youth may issue a child care center or type A family child care home license to a youth development program that is exempted by division (B)(8) of section 5104.02 of the Revised Code from the requirements of this chapter if the youth development program applies for and meets all of the requirements for the license.

...icense to operate a type A family child care home if the type A home is certified as a foster home or specialized foster home pursuant to Chapter 5103. of the Revised Code. In no case shall the director issue a license to operate a type B family child care home if the type B home is certified as a specialized foster home pursuant to Chapter 5103. of the Revised Code.

... or agency seeking to establish a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home shall apply for a license to the director of children and youth on such form as the director prescribes. The director shall provide at no charge to each applicant for licensure a copy of the child care license requirements in this chapter and a copy of the rules adopted pursuant to this chapte...

...(A)(1) A child care center shall have at least two responsible adults available on the premises at all times when seven or more children are in the center. The center shall organize the children in the center in small groups, shall provide child care staff to give continuity of care and supervision to the children on a day-by-day basis, and shall ensure that no child is left alone or unsupervised. Except as otherwise...

...Each child care center shall have on the center premises and readily available at all times at least one child care staff member who has completed a course in first aid, one staff member who has completed a course in prevention, recognition, and management of communicable diseases which is approved by the state department of health, and a staff member who has completed a course in child abuse recognition and preventi...

...e of tuberculosis screening, each child care center shall determine if the person has done both of the following: (1) Resided in a country identified by the world health organization as having a high burden of tuberculosis; (2) Arrived in the United States within the five years immediately preceding the date of application for employment. (C) If the person meets the criteria described in division (B) of this...

...The administrator of each child care center shall maintain enrollment, health, and attendance records for all children attending the center and health and employment records for all center employees. The records shall be confidential, except that they shall be disclosed by the administrator to the director of children and youth upon request for the purpose of administering and enforcing this chapter and rules adopted...

...ustodian of a child enrolled in a child care center and any custodian or guardian of such a child shall be permitted unlimited access to the center during its hours of operation for the purposes of contacting their children, evaluating the care provided by the center, evaluating the premises of the center, or for other purposes approved by the director. A parent of a child enrolled in a child care center who is not t...

...gating, inspecting, and licensing child care centers, type A family child care homes, and licensed type B family child care homes. (B)(1)(a) The department shall, at least once during every twelve-month period of operation of a center, type A home, or licensed type B home, inspect the center, type A home, or licensed type B home. The department shall inspect a part-time center or part-time type A home at least onc...

...(A) All type A family child care homes and licensed type B family child care homes shall procure and maintain one of the following: (1) Liability insurance issued by an insurer authorized to do business in this state under Chapter 3905. of the Revised Code insuring the type A or type B family child care home against liability arising out of, or in connection with, the operation of the family child care home. The i...