Section 5123.1610.

(A) Both of the following apply if the department of medicaid, pursuant to section 5164.38 of the Revised Code, terminates or refuses to revalidate a provider agreement that authorizes a person or government entity to provide supported living under the medicaid program:

(1) In the case of a terminated provider agreement, the person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate is automatically revoked on the date that the provider agreement is terminated.

(2) In the case of a provider agreement that expires because the department of medicaid refuses to revalidate it, the person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate is automatically revoked on the date that the provider agreement expires, unless the expiration date of the provider agreement is the same as the expiration date of the supported living certificate, in which case the director of developmental disabilities shall refuse to renew the person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living under the certificate.

(B) The director of developmental disabilities is not required to issue an adjudication order in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do either of the following pursuant to this section:

(1) Revoke a person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living;

(2) Refuse to renew a person or government entity's authority to provide medicaid-funded supported living.

(C) This section does not affect a person or government entity's authority to provide nonmedicaid-funded supported living under a supported living certificate.

Added by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2015.