173.431 Administration of budget. - Ohio Statutes

173.431 Administration of budget.

Subject to section 173.433 of the Revised Code, the department of aging shall ensure that the unified long-term care budget established under section 173.43 of the Revised Code is administered in a manner that provides medicaid coverage of and expands access to all of the following as necessary to meet the needs of individuals receiving home and community-based services covered by medicaid components the department of aging administers:

(A) To the extent permitted by the medicaid waivers authorizing department of aging-administered medicaid waiver components, all of the following medicaid waiver services provided under department of aging-administered medicaid waiver components:

(1)Personal care services;

(2)Home-delivered meals;

(3)Adult day-care;

(4)Homemaker services;

(5)Emergency response services;

(6)Medical equipment and supplies;

(7)Chore services;

(8)Social work counseling;

(9)Nutritional counseling;

(10)Independent living assistance;

(11)Medical transportation;

(12)Nonmedical transportation;

(13)Home care attendant services;

(14)Assisted living services;

(15)Community transition services;

(16)Enhanced community living services;

(17) All other medicaid waiver services provided under department of aging-administered medicaid waiver components.

(B) All of the following state medicaid plan services as specified in rules adopted under section 5111.02 of the Revised Code:

(1)Home health services;

(2)Private duty nursing services;

(3)Durable medical equipment;

(4)Services of a clinical nurse specialist;

(5)Services of a certified nurse practitioner.

(C)The services that the PACE program provides.

Added by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.