5111.71 Plan amendment for medicaid school component.

5111.71 Plan amendment for medicaid school component.

(A) As used in sections 5111.71 to 5111.715 of the Revised Code, “qualified medicaid school provider” means the board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district, the governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, the state school for the deaf, and the state school for the blind to which both of the following apply:

(1) It holds a valid medicaid provider agreement.

(2) It meets all other conditions for participation in the medicaid school component of the medicaid program established in rules adopted under section 5111.715 of the Revised Code.

(B) The director of job and family services shall submit a state medicaid plan amendment to the United States secretary of health and human services for the purpose of creating, in accordance with sections 5111.71 to 5111.715 of the Revised Code, the medicaid school component of the medicaid program. The director shall create the medicaid school component on receipt of the United States secretary’s approval of the amendment.

Effective Date: 2008 HB562 06-24-2008