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Section 5167.173 | Community health worker services or services provided by public health nurse.

Ohio Revised Code
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Title 51 Public Welfare
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Chapter 5167 Medicaid Managed Care
 
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Effective:
April 6, 2017
Legislation:
Senate Bill 332 - 131st General Assembly
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(A) As used in this section:

(1) "Certified community health worker" has the same meaning as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Community health worker services" means the services described in section 4723.81 of the Revised Code.

(3) "Qualified community hub" means a central clearinghouse for a network of community care coordination agencies and that meets all of the following criteria:

(a) Demonstrates to the director of health that it uses an evidenced-based, pay-for-performance community care coordination model (endorsed by the federal agency for healthcare research and quality, the national institutes of health, and the centers for medicare and medicaid services or their successors) to connect at-risk individuals to health, ho using, transportation, employment, education, and other social services;

(b) Demonstrates to the director of health that it has achieved, or is engaged in achieving, certification from a national hub certification program;

(c) Has a plan, approved by the medicaid director, specifying how the community hub ensures that children served by it receive appropriate developmental screenings as specified in the publication titled "Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents," available from the American academy of pediatrics, as well as appropriate early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services.

(B) When contracting with a medicaid managed care organization that is a health insuring corporation, the department of medicaid shall require the organization to provide to a medicaid recipient who meets the criteria in division (C) of this section, or arrange for the medicaid recipient to receive, both of the following services provided by a certified community health worker who is employed by, or works under a contract with, a qualified community hub:

(1) Community health worker services;

(2) Other services that are not community health worker services but are performed for the purpose of ensuring that the m edicaid recipient is linked to employment services, housing, educational services, social services, or medically necessary physical and behavioral health services.

(C) A medicaid recipient qualifies to receive the services specified in division (B) of this section if the medicaid recipient is pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant, resides in a community served by a qualified community hub, has been recommended to receive the services by a physician or another licensed health professional specified in rules adopted under division (D) of this section, and is enrolled in the medicaid managed care organization providing or arranging for the services.

(D) The medicaid director shall adopt rules under section 5167.02 of the Revised Code specifying the licensed health professionals, in addition to physicians, who may recommend that a medicaid recipient receive the services specified in division (B) of this section.

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