5111.672 Effective date of provider agreement with entering operator. - Ohio Statutes

5111.672 Effective date of provider agreement with entering operator.

(A) The department of job and family services may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the date determined under division (B) of this section if all of the following are the case:

(1) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5111.67 of the Revised Code.

(2) The entering operator furnishes to the department copies of all the fully executed leases, management agreements, merger agreements and supporting documents, and sales contracts and supporting documents relating to the change of operator.

(3) The requirement of division (A)(1) of this section is met after the time required by section 5111.67 of the Revised Code, the requirement of division (A)(2) of this section is met more than ten days after the effective date of the change of operator, or both.

(4) The entering operator is eligible for medicaid payments as provided in section 5111.21 of the Revised Code.

(B) The department shall determine the date a provider agreement entered into under this section is to go into effect as follows:

(1) The effective date shall give the department sufficient time to process the change of operator, assure no duplicate payments are made, make the withholding required by section 5111.681 of the Revised Code, and withhold the final payment to the exiting operator until one hundred eighty days after either of the following:

(a) The date that the exiting operator submits to the department a properly completed cost report under section 5111.682 of the Revised Code;

(b) The date that the department waives the cost report requirement of section 5111.682 of the Revised Code.

(2) The effective date shall be not earlier than the later of the effective date of the change of operator or the date that the exiting operator or owner and entering operator comply with section 5111.67 of the Revised Code.

(3) The effective date shall be not later than the following after the later of the dates specified in division (B)(2) of this section:

(a) Forty-five days if the change of operator does not entail the relocation of residents;

(b) Ninety days if the change of operator entails the relocation of residents.

Effective Date: 07-01-2005