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2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [3] III COUNTIES
Chapter 341: JAILS
341.192 Payment of outside medical provider for necessary care.


OH Rev Code § 341.192 What's This?

(A) As used in this section:

(1) “Jail” means a county jail, or a multicounty, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal correctional center.

(2) “Medical assistance program” has the same meaning as in section 2913.40 of the Revised Code.

(3) “Medical provider” means a physician, hospital, laboratory, pharmacy, or other health care provider that is not employed by or under contract to a county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation and correction to provide medical services to persons confined in a jail or state correctional institution, or is in the custody of a law enforcement officer.

(4) “Necessary care” means medical care of a nonelective nature that cannot be postponed until after the period of confinement of a person who is confined in a jail or state correctional institution, or is in the custody of a law enforcement officer without endangering the life or health of the person.

(B) If a physician employed by or under contract to a county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation and correction to provide medical services to persons confined in a jail or state correctional institution determines that a person who is confined in the jail or state correctional institution or who is in the custody of a law enforcement officer prior to the person’s confinement in a jail or state correctional institution requires necessary care that the physician cannot provide, the necessary care shall be provided by a medical provider. The county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation and correction shall pay a medical provider for necessary care an amount not exceeding the authorized reimbursement rate for the same service established by the department of job and family services under the medical assistance program.

Amended by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.

Effective Date: 09-29-2005; 2008 HB130 04-07-2009

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