§ 5111.02 Reimbursement of providers and facilities. 

Text of Statute

(A) Under the medical assistance program:

(1) Reimbursement by the department of job and family services to a medical provider for any medical service rendered under the program shall not exceed the authorized reimbursement level for the same service under the medicare program established under Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended.

(2) Reimbursement for freestanding medical laboratory charges shall not exceed the customary and usual fee for laboratory profiles.

(3) The department may deduct from payments for services rendered by a medicaid provider under the medical assistance program any amounts the provider owes the state as the result of incorrect medical assistance payments the department has made to the provider.

(4) The department may conduct final fiscal audits in accordance with the applicable requirements set forth in federal laws and regulations and determine any amounts the provider may owe the state. When conducting final fiscal audits, the department shall consider generally accepted auditing standards, which include the use of statistical sampling.

(5) To the maximum extent that federal laws and regulations permit the implementation of such a policy, the department may institute a copayment program for all services provided under the medical assistance program. The program shall be administered in accordance with the applicable requirements set forth in federal laws and regulations.

(6) The number of days of inpatient hospital care for which reimbursement is made on behalf of a recipient of medical assistance to a hospital that is not paid under a diagnostic-related-group prospective payment system shall not exceed thirty days during a period beginning on the day of the recipient's admission to the hospital and ending sixty days after the termination of that hospital stay, except that the department may make exceptions to this limitation. The limitation does not apply to children participating in the program for medically handicapped children established under section 3701.023 [3701.02.3] of the Revised Code.

(B) The director of job and family services may adopt, amend, or rescind rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing the amount, duration, and scope of medical services to be included in the medical assistance program. Such rules shall establish the conditions under which services are covered and reimbursed, the method of reimbursement applicable to each covered service, and the amount of reimbursement or, in lieu of such amounts, methods by which such amounts are to be determined for each covered service. Any rules that pertain to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded shall be consistent with sections 5111.20 to 5111.33 of the Revised Code.

(C) No health insuring corporation that has a contract to provide health care services to recipients of medical assistance shall restrict the availability to its enrollees of any prescription drugs included in the Ohio medicaid drug formulary as established under rules adopted by the director.

(D) The division of any reimbursement between a collaborating physician or podiatrist and a clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner for services performed by the nurse shall be determined and agreed on by the nurse and collaborating physician or podiatrist. In no case shall reimbursement exceed the payment that the physician or podiatrist would have received had the physician or podiatrist provided the entire service.

HISTORY: RC § 5101.51, 131 v 1210 (Eff 11-5-65); 133 v H 740 (Eff 11-14-69); 135 v S 318 (Eff 1-1-74); 135 v S 174 (Eff 12-4-73); 136 v H 1 (Eff 6-13-75); 136 v H 1546 (Eff 10-7-76); 137 v S 221 (Eff 11-23-77); 138 v H 204 (Eff 7-30-79); RC § 5111.02, 138 v H 176 (Eff 7-1-80); 138 v H 964 (Eff 7-1-80); 138 v H 1237 (Eff 9-30-80); 139 v H 1 (Eff 8-5-81); 139 v H 694 (Eff 11-15-81); 139 v S 550 (Eff 11-26-82); 140 v H 100 (Eff 2-24-83); 140 v H 291 (Eff 7-1-83); 140 v H 794 (Eff 7-6-84); 141 v H 238 (Eff 7-1-85); 142 v H 171 (Eff 7-1-87); 142 v S 196 (Eff 10-20-87); 142 v H 708 (Eff 4-19-88); 143 v H 111 (Eff 7-1-89); 143 v H 672 (Eff 11-14-89); 143 v H 822 (Eff 12-13-90); 144 v H 904 (Eff 12-22-92); 145 v H 152 (Eff 7-1-93); 146 v S 154 (Eff 9-10-96); 147 v S 67 (Eff 6-4-97); 148 v H 471. Eff 7-1-2000.

Not analogous to former RC § 5101.51 (GC § 1851-2; 109 v 140; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53), repealed 125 v 823 (892), eff 7-1-54.

Not analogous to former RC § 5111.02 (GC § 6289-9; 119 v 384; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53), repealed 128 v 645, § 2, eff 9-7-59.

The effective date is set by section 12(A) of HB 471.


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Containing legislation passed and filed through August 1, 2000.