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Section 5160.01 | Definitions.

 

As used in this chapter:

(A) "Dual eligible individual" has the same meaning as in the "Social Security Act," section 1915(h)(2)(B), 42 U.S.C. 1396n(h)(2)(B). A dual eligible individual is a medicare-medicaid enrollee (MME).

(B) "Exchange" has the same meaning as in 45 C.F.R. 155.20.

(C) "Federal financial participation" means the federal government's share of expenditures made by an entity in implementing a medical assistance program.

(D) "Medical assistance program" means all of the following:

(1) The medicaid program;

(2) The children's health insurance program;

(3) The refugee medical assistance program;

(4) Any other program that provides medical assistance and state statutes authorize the department of medicaid to administer.

(E) "Medical assistance recipient" means a recipient of a medical assistance program. To the extent appropriate in the context, "medical assistance recipient" includes an individual applying for a medical assistance program, a former medical assistance recipient, or both.

(F) "Medicaid managed care organization" has the same meaning as in section 5167.01 of the Revised Code.

(G) "Refugee medical assistance program" means the program that the department of medicaid administers pursuant to section 5160.50 of the Revised Code.

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