2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
5111.259 Centers of excellence component.

The director of job and family services may submit a request to the United States secretary of health and human services for approval to establish a centers of excellence component of the medicaid program. The purpose of the centers of excellence component is to increase the efficiency and quality of nursing facility services provided to medicaid recipients with complex nursing facility service needs. If federal approval for the centers of excellence component is granted, the director may adopt rules under section 5111.02 of the Revised Code governing the component, including rules that establish a method of determining the medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing facilities providing nursing facility services to medicaid recipients participating in the component. The rules may specify the extent to which, if any, of the provisions of section 5111.258 of the Revised Code are to apply to the centers of excellence component. If such rules are adopted, the nursing facilities that provide nursing facility services to medicaid recipients participating in the centers of excellence component shall be paid for those services in accordance with the method established in the rules notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 5111.20 to 5111.331 of the Revised Code.

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