2013 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Section 5111.864 - Unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver component.
(A) As used in this section:
"Medicaid waiver component" has the same meaning as in section 5111.85 of the Revised Code.
"Nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5111.20 of the Revised Code.
(B) The director of job and family services shall submit a request to the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to section 1915n of the "Social Security Act," 95 Stat. 809 (1981), 42 U.S.C. 1396n, as amended, to obtain approval to create a unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver component to provide home and community-based services to eligible individuals of any age who require the level of care provided by nursing facilities. The director of job and family services shall work with the director of aging in seeking approval of the unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver component and, if the approval is obtained, in creating and implementing the component.
If the request to create the unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver component is approved, the director of job and family services, working with the director of aging, shall adopt rules under section 5111.85 of the Revised Code to implement the component. The rules may authorize the director of aging to adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing aspects of the unified long-term services and support medicaid waiver component.
Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28,HB 153, ยง101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.
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