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...If a nursing facility provider required by section 5165.10 of the Revised Code to file a cost report for the nursing facility fails to file the cost report by the date it is due or the date, if any, to which the due date is extended pursuant to division (D) of that section, or files an incomplete or inadequate report for the nursing facility under that section, the department of medicaid shall provide immediate writt...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and not later than three years after a nursing facility provider files a cost report with the department of medicaid under section 5165.10 of the Revised Code, the provider may amend the cost report if the provider discovers a material error in the cost report or additional information to be included in the cost report. The department shall review the amend...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall conduct a desk review of each cost report it receives under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code. Based on the desk review, the department shall make a preliminary determination of whether the reported costs are allowable costs. The department shall notify each nursing facility provider of whether any of the reported costs are preliminarily determined not to be al...

...(A) The department of medicaid may conduct an audit, as defined in rules adopted under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code, of any cost report filed under section 5165.10 or 5165.522 of the Revised Code. The decision whether to conduct an audit and the scope of the audit, which may be a desk or field audit, may be determined based on prior performance of the provider, a risk analysis, or other evidence that gives the...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of medicaid shall fine the provider of a nursing facility if the report of an audit conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code regarding a cost report for the nursing facility includes either of the following: (1) Adverse findings that exceed three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report; (2) Adverse f...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall determine each nursing facility's per medicaid day payment rate for ancillary and support costs. A nursing facility's rate shall be the rate determined under division (C) of this section for the nursing facility's peer group. (B) For the purpose of determining nursing facilities' rates for ancillary and support costs, the department shall establish six peer groups composed as f...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall determine each nursing facility's per medicaid day payment rate for capital costs. A nursing facility's rate shall be the rate determined under division (C) of this section for the nursing facility's peer group. (B) For the purpose of determining nursing facilities' rates for capital costs, the department shall establish six peer groups. (1) Each nursing facility located in an...

...(A)(1) Semiannually, except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the department of medicaid shall determine each nursing facility's per medicaid day payment rate for direct care costs by multiplying the facility's semiannual case-mix score determined under section 5165.192 of the Revised Code by the cost per case-mix unit determined under division (C) of this section for the facility's peer group. (2) B...

...Each calendar quarter, each nursing facility provider shall compile complete assessment data for each resident of each of the provider's nursing facilities, regardless of payment source, who is in the nursing facility, or on hospital or therapeutic leave from the nursing facility, on the last day of the quarter. A resident assessment instrument specified in rules authorized by this section shall be used to compile th...

...(A) The department of medicaid may, pursuant to rules authorized by this section, conduct an exception review of resident assessment data submitted by a nursing facility provider under section 5165.191 of the Revised Code. The department may conduct an exception review based on the findings of a medicaid certification survey conducted by the department of health, a risk analysis, or prior performance of the provider....

...The department of medicaid shall determine each nursing facility's per medicaid day payment rate for tax costs. The rate for tax costs determined under this division for a nursing facility shall be used for subsequent years until the department conducts a rebasing. To determine a nursing facility's rate for tax costs, the department shall divide the nursing facility's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable tax costs paid f...

...If a provider of a nursing facility adds or replaces one or more medicaid certified beds to or at the nursing facility, or renovates one or more of the nursing facility's beds, the medicaid payment rate for the added, replaced, or renovated beds shall be the same as the medicaid payment rate for the nursing facility's existing beds.

...If one or more medicaid-certified beds are relocated from one nursing facility to another nursing facility owned by a different person or government entity and the application for the certificate of need authorizing the relocation is filed with the director of health on or after July 1, 2005, amortization of the cost of acquiring operating rights for the relocated beds is not an allowable cost for the purpose o...

...The department of medicaid shall not reduce a nursing facility's medicaid payment rate determined under this chapter on the basis that the provider charges a lower rate to any resident who is not eligible for medicaid.

...No medicaid payment shall be made to a nursing facility provider for the day a medicaid recipient is discharged from the nursing facility.

...(A) The department of medicaid may make medicaid payments to a nursing facility provider under this chapter to reserve a bed for a recipient during a temporary absence under conditions prescribed by the department, to include hospitalization for an acute condition, visits with relatives and friends, and participation in therapeutic programs outside the facility, when the resident's plan of care provides for such abse...

...Beginning with state fiscal year 2024, the department of medicaid shall conduct a rebasing at least once every five state fiscal years. When the department conducts the rebasing for a state fiscal year, it shall conduct the rebasing for only the direct care and tax cost centers.

...The department of medicaid shall make its best efforts each year to calculate nursing facilities' medicaid payment rates under this chapter in time to pay the rates by the fifteenth day of August of each state fiscal year. If the department is unable to calculate the rates so that they can be paid by that date, the department shall pay each provider the rate calculated for the provider's nursing facilities under this...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5165.02 of the Revised Code that establish a process under which a nursing facility provider, or a group or association of nursing facility providers, may seek reconsideration of medicaid payment rates established under this chapter, including a rate for direct care costs recalculated before the effective date of the rate as a result of an exception review o...

...If a nursing facility provider properly amends a cost report for the nursing facility under section 5165.107 of the Revised Code and the amended report shows that the provider received a lower medicaid payment rate under the original cost report than the provider was entitled to receive, the department of medicaid shall adjust the provider's rate for the nursing facility prospectively to reflect the corrected i...

...(A) The department of medicaid shall redetermine a provider's medicaid payment rate for a nursing facility using revised information if any of the following results in a determination that the provider received a higher medicaid payment rate for the nursing facility than the provider was entitled to receive: (1) The provider properly amends a cost report for the nursing facility under section 5165.107 of the Revised...

...In addition to the other penalties authorized by this chapter, the department of medicaid may impose the following penalties on a nursing facility provider: (A) If the provider does not furnish invoices or other documentation that the department requests during an audit within sixty days after the request, a fine of no more than the greater of the following: (1) One thousand dollars per audit; (2) Twenty-five per ...

...For the purposes of sections 5165.41 and 5165.42 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall determine the current average bank prime rate using statistical release H.15, "selected interest rates," a weekly publication of the federal reserve board, or any successor publication. If statistical release H.15, or its successor, ceases to contain the bank prime rate information or ceases to be published, t...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of medicaid shall deduct the following from the next available medicaid payment the department makes to a nursing facility provider who continues to participate in medicaid: (1) Any amount the provider is required to refund, and any interest charged, under section 5165.41 of the Revised Code; (2) The amount of any penalty imposed on the pr...

...The department of medicaid shall transmit to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general revenue fund amounts collected from the following: (A) Refunds required by, and interest charged under, section 5165.41 of the Revised Code; (B) Amounts collected from penalties imposed under section 5165.42 of the Revised Code.