2013 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Section 5111.083 - E-prescribing system.

(A) As used in this section, "licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.

(B) The director of job and family services may establish an e-prescribing system for the medicaid program under which a medicaid provider who is a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs shall use an electronic system to prescribe a drug for a medicaid recipient when required to do so by division (C) of this section. The e-prescribing system shall eliminate the need for such medicaid providers to make prescriptions for medicaid recipients by handwriting or telephone. The e-prescribing system also shall provide such medicaid providers with an up-to-date, clinically relevant drug information database and a system of electronically monitoring medicaid recipients' medical history, drug regimen compliance, and fraud and abuse.

(C) If the director establishes an e-prescribing system under division (B) of this section, the director shall do all of the following:

(1) Require that a medicaid provider who is a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs use the e-prescribing system during a fiscal year if the medicaid provider was one of the ten medicaid providers who, during the calendar year that precedes that fiscal year, issued the most prescriptions for medicaid recipients receiving hospital services;

(2) Before the beginning of each fiscal year, determine the ten medicaid providers that issued the most prescriptions for medicaid recipients receiving hospital services during the calendar year that precedes the upcoming fiscal year and notify those medicaid providers that they must use the e-prescribing system for the upcoming fiscal year;

(3) Seek the most federal financial participation available for the development and implementation of the e-prescribing system.

Effective Date: 07-01-2006