2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
5111.0215 Incentive payments for adoption and use of electronic health record technology.
(A) The department of job and family services may establish a program under which it provides incentive payments, as authorized by the “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act,” 123 Stat. 489 (2009), 42 U.S.C. 1396b(a)(3)(F) and 1396b(t), as amended, to encourage the adoption and use of electronic health record technology by medicaid providers who are identified under that federal law as eligible professionals.
(B) After the department has made a determination regarding the amount of a medicaid provider’s electronic health record incentive payment or the denial of an incentive payment, the department shall notify the provider. The provider may request that the department reconsider its determination.
A request for reconsideration shall be submitted in writing to the department not later than fifteen days after the provider receives notification of the determination. The request shall be accompanied by written materials setting forth the basis for, and supporting, the reconsideration request.
On receipt of a timely request, the department shall reconsider the determination. On the basis of the written materials accompanying the request, the department may uphold, reverse, or modify its original determination. The department shall mail to the provider by certified mail a written notice of the reconsideration decision.
In accordance with Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code, the medicaid provider may appeal the reconsideration decision by filing a notice of appeal with the court of common pleas of Franklin county. The notice shall identify the decision being appealed and the specific grounds for the appeal. The notice of appeal shall be filed not later than fifteen days after the department mails its notice of the reconsideration decision. A copy of the notice of appeal shall be filed with the department not later than three days after the notice is filed with the court.
(C) The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section.
Added by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
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