5111.70 Medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program. - Ohio Statutes

5111.70 Medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program.

(A) As used in sections 5111.70 to 5111.7011 of the Revised Code:

“Applicant” means an individual who applies to participate in the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program.

“Earned income” has the meaning established by rules adopted under section 5111.708 of the Revised Code.

“Employed individual with a medically improved disability” has the same meaning as in 42 U.S.C. 1396d(v).

“Family” means an applicant or participant and the spouse and dependent children of the applicant or participant. If an applicant or participant is under eighteen years of age, “family” also means the parents of the applicant or participant.

“Federal poverty guidelines” has the same meaning as in section 5101.46 of the Revised Code.

“Health insurance” has the meaning established by rules adopted under section 5111.708 of the Revised Code.

“Income” means earned income and unearned income.

“Participant” means an individual who has been determined eligible for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program and is participating in the program.

“Resources” has the meaning established by rules adopted under section 5111.708 of the Revised Code.

“Spouse” has the meaning established in rules adopted under section 5111.708 of the Revised Code.

“Supplemental security income program” means the program established under Title XVI of the “Social Security Act,” 86 Stat. 1329 (1972), 42 U.S.C. 1381, as amended.

“Medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program” means the component of the medicaid program established under sections 5111.70 to 5111.7011 of the Revised Code.

“Unearned income” has the meaning established by rules adopted under section 5111.708 of the Revised Code.

(B) Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, the director of job and family services shall submit to the United States secretary of health and human services an amendment to the state medicaid plan and any federal waiver necessary to establish the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a) (10)(A)(ii)(XV) and (XVI) and sections5111.70 to 5111.7011 of the Revised Code. The director shall implement sections 5111.701 to 5111.7011 of the Revised Code if the amendment and, if needed, federal waiver are approved.

Effective Date: 2007 HB119 09-29-2007