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Ohio Revised Code Title LI. Public Welfare § 5165.1010

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, the department of medicaid shall fine the provider of a nursing facility if the report of an audit conducted under section 5165.109 of the Revised Code regarding a cost report for the nursing facility includes either of the following:

(1) Adverse findings that exceed three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report;

(2) Adverse findings that exceed twenty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report.

(B) A fine issued under this section shall equal the greatest of the following:

(1) If the adverse findings exceed three per cent but do not exceed ten per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of three per cent of those reported costs or ten thousand dollars;

(2) If the adverse findings exceed ten per cent but do not exceed twenty per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of six per cent of those reported costs or twenty-five thousand dollars;

(3) If the adverse findings exceed twenty per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report, the greater of ten per cent of those reported costs or fifty thousand dollars;

(4) If the adverse findings exceed twenty per cent but do not exceed twenty-five per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of three per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or ten thousand dollars;

(5) If the adverse findings exceed twenty-five per cent but do not exceed thirty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of six per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or twenty-five thousand dollars;

(6) If the adverse findings exceed thirty per cent of medicaid-allowable costs for a particular cost center reported in the cost report, the greater of ten per cent of the total amount of medicaid-allowable costs reported in the cost report or fifty thousand dollars.

(C) Fines paid under this section shall be deposited into the health care/medicaid support and recoveries fund created under section 5162.52 of the Revised Code.

(D) The department may not collect a fine under this section until all appeal rights relating to the audit report that is the basis for the fine are exhausted.

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