2006 Ohio Revised Code - 5111.89. Definitions; request for waiver needed to implement assisted living program; department of aging to administer program; rules.

§ 5111.89. Definitions; request for waiver needed to implement assisted living program; department of aging to administer program; rules.
 

(A)  As used in sections 5111.89 to 5111.893 [5111.89.3] of the Revised Code: 
 

"Assisted living program" means the medicaid waiver component for which the director of job and family services is authorized by this section to request a medicaid waiver. 
 

"Assisted living services" means the following home and community-based services: personal care, homemaker, chore, attendant care, companion, medication oversight, and therapeutic social and recreational programming. 
 

"County or district home" means a county or district home operated under Chapter 5155. of the Revised Code. 
 

"Medicaid waiver component" has the same meaning as in section 5111.85 of the Revised Code. 
 

"Nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5111.20 of the Revised Code. 
 

"Residential care facility" has the same meaning as in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code. 

(B)  The director of job and family services may submit a request to the United States secretary of health and human services under 42 U.S.C. 1396n to obtain a waiver of federal medicaid requirements that would otherwise be violated in the creation and implementation of a program under which assisted living services are provided to not more than one thousand eight hundred individuals who meet the program's eligibility requirements established under section 5111.891 [5111.89.1] of the Revised Code. 
 

If the secretary approves the medicaid waiver requested under this section and the director of budget and management approves the contract, the department of job and family services shall enter into a contract with the department of aging under section 5111.91 of the Revised Code that provides for the department of aging to administer the assisted living program. The contract shall include an estimate of the program's costs. 
 

The director of job and family services may adopt rules under section 5111.85 of the Revised Code regarding the assisted living program. The director of aging may adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding the program that the rules adopted by the director of job and family services authorize the director of aging to adopt. 
 

HISTORY: 151 v H 66, § 101.01, eff. 10-1-05.
 

The effective date is set by § 612.09 of 151 v H 66.