5111.915 Contract for data collection and warehouse functions assessment. - Ohio Statutes

5111.915 Contract for data collection and warehouse functions assessment.

(A) The department of job and family services shall enter into an agreement with the department of administrative services for the department of administrative services to contract through competitive selection pursuant to section 125.07 of the Revised Code with a vendor to perform an assessment of the data collection and data warehouse functions of the medicaid data warehouse system, including the ability to link the data sets of all agencies serving medicaid recipients.

The assessment of the data system shall include functions related to fraud and abuse detection, program management and budgeting, and performance measurement capabilities of all agencies serving medicaid recipients, including the departments of aging, alcohol and drug addiction services, health, job and family services, mental health, and developmental disabilities.

The department of administrative services shall enter into this contract within thirty days after September 29, 2005. The contract shall require the vendor to complete the assessment within ninety days after September 29, 2005.

A qualified vendor with whom the department of administrative services contracts to assess the data system shall also assist the medicaid agencies in the definition of the requirements for an enhanced data system or a new data system and assist the department of administrative services in the preparation of a request for proposal to enhance or develop a data system.

(B) Based on the assessment performed pursuant to division (A) of this section, the department of administrative services shall seek a qualified vendor through competitive selection pursuant to section 125.07 of the Revised Code to develop or enhance a data collection and data warehouse system for the department of job and family services and all agencies serving medicaid recipients.

Within ninety days after September 29, 2005, the department of job and family services shall seek enhanced federal funding for ninety per cent of the funds required to establish or enhance the data system. The department of administrative services shall not award a contract for establishing or enhancing the data system until the department of job and family services receives approval from the secretary of the United States department of health and human services for the ninety per cent federal match.

Amended by 128th General Assembly ch. 7, SB 79, § 1, eff. 10/6/2009.

Effective Date: 09-29-2005