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Section 5165.1010 | Nursing facility fines.

 
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(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 findings that exceed twenty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report.

(B) A fine issued under this section shall equal the greatest of the following:

(1) If the adverse findings exceed three per cent but do not exceed ten per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of three per cent of those reported costs or ten thousand dollars;

(2) If the adverse findings exceed ten per cent but do not exceed twenty per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of six per cent of those reported costs or twenty-five thousand dollars;

(3) If the adverse findings exceed twenty per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of ten per cent of those reported costs or fifty thousand dollars;

(4) If the adverse findings exceed twenty per cent but do not exceed twenty-five per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or ten thousand dollars;

(5) If the adverse findings exceed twenty-five per cent but do not exceed thirty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of six per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or twenty-five thousand dollars;

(6) If the adverse findings exceed thirty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of ten per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or fifty thousand dollars.

(C) Fines paid under this section shall be deposited into the health care services administration fund created under section 5162.54 of the Revised Code.

(D) The department may not collect a fine under this section until all appeal rights relating to the audit report that is the basis for the fine are exhausted.

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