2013 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Section 5111.246 - [Effective7/1/2013] Critical access incentive payments to qualified facilities.
(A) Each fiscal year, the department of job and family services shall pay a critical access incentive payment to the provider of each nursing facility that qualifies as a critical access nursing facility. To qualify as a critical access nursing facility for a fiscal year, a nursing facility must meet all of the following requirements:
(1) The nursing facility must be located in an area that, on December 31, 2011, was designated an empowerment zone under section 1391 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 107 Stat. 543, 26 U.S.C. 1391, as amended.
(2) The nursing facility must have an occupancy rate of at least eighty-five per cent as of the last day of the calendar year preceding the fiscal year.
(3) The nursing facility must have a medicaid utilization rate of at least sixty-five per cent as of the last day of the calendar year preceding the fiscal year.
(B) A critical access nursing facility's critical access incentive payment for a fiscal year shall equal five per cent of the portion of the nursing facility's total rate for the fiscal year that is the sum of the rates and payment identified in divisions (B)(1) to (4) and (6) of section 5111.222 of the Revised Code.
Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.194,HB 303, §1, eff. 7/1/2013.
Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127,HB 487, §101.01, eff. 9/10/2012.
This section is set out twice. See also §5111.2461, effective until 7/1/2013.
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