5111.021 Reimbursement of providers.
5111.021 Reimbursement of providers.
Under the medicaid program:
(A) Except as otherwise permitted by federal statute or regulation and at the department’s discretion, reimbursement by the department of job and family services to a medical provider for any medical service rendered under the program shall not exceed the authorized reimbursement level for the same service under the medicare program established under Title XVIII of the “Social Security Act,” 79 Stat. 286 ( 1965), 42 U.S.C. 1395, as amended.
(B) Reimbursement for freestanding medical laboratory charges shall not exceed the customary and usual fee for laboratory profiles.
(C) The department may deduct from payments for services rendered by a medicaid provider under the medicaid program any amounts the provider owes the state as the result of incorrect medicaid payments the department has made to the provider.
(D) The department may conduct final fiscal audits in accordance with the applicable requirements set forth in federal laws and regulations and determine any amounts the provider may owe the state. When conducting final fiscal audits, the department shall consider generally accepted auditing standards, which include the use of statistical sampling.
(E) The number of days of inpatient hospital care for which reimbursement is made on behalf of a medicaid recipient to a hospital that is not paid under a diagnostic-related-group prospective payment system shall not exceed thirty days during a period beginning on the day of the recipient’s admission to the hospital and ending sixty days after the termination of that hospital stay, except that the department may make exceptions to this limitation. The limitation does not apply to children participating in the program for medically handicapped children established under section 3701.023 of the Revised Code.
(F) The division of any reimbursement between a collaborating physician or podiatrist and a clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner for services performed by the nurse shall be determined and agreed on by the nurse and collaborating physician or podiatrist. In no case shall reimbursement exceed the payment that the physician or podiatrist would have received had the physician or podiatrist provided the entire service.
Effective Date: 08-01-2003; 10-01-2005