2013 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Section 5111.21 - Paying reasonable costs of services provided by eligible facility.

(A) In order to be eligible for medicaid payments, the operator of a nursing facility or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded shall do all of the following:

(1) Enter into a provider agreement with the department as provided in section 5111.22, 5111.671, or 5111.672 of the Revised Code;

(2) Apply for and maintain a valid license to operate if so required by law;

(3) Subject to division (B) of this section, comply with all applicable state and federal laws and rules.

(B) A state rule that requires the operator of an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded to have received approval of a plan for the proposed facility pursuant to section 5123.042 of the Revised Code as a condition of the operator being eligible for medicaid payments for the facility does not apply if, under former section 5123.193of the Revised Code as enacted by Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th general assembly or section 5123.197 of the Revised Code, a residential facility license was obtained or modified for the facility without obtaining approval of such a plan.

(C)

(1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, the operator of a nursing facility that elects to obtain and maintain eligibility for payments under the medicaid program shall qualify all of the facility's medicaid-certified beds in the medicare program established by Title XVIII. The director of job and family services may adopt rules under section 5111.02 of the Revised Code to establish the time frame in which a nursing facility must comply with this requirement.

(2) The department of veterans services is not required to qualify all of the medicaid-certified beds in a nursing facility the agency maintains and operates under section 5907.01 of the Revised Code in the medicare program.

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

Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.54,HB 449, §1, eff. 9/17/2010.

Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9,HB 1, §101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.

Effective Date: 06-26-2003; 07-01-2005