Section 5124.61. Conversion of beds in acquired ICF/IID

(A) For the purpose of increasing the number of slots available for home and community-based services, a person who acquires, through a request for proposals issued by the director of developmental disabilities, an ICF/IID for which a residential facility license was previously surrendered or revoked may convert some or all of the ICF/IID's beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services if all of the following requirements are met:

(1) The person provides the directors of health and developmental disabilities and medicaid director at least ninety days' notice of the person's intent to make the conversion.

(2) The person complies with the requirements of sections 5124.50 to 5124.53 of the Revised Code regarding a voluntary termination if those requirements are applicable.

(3) If the person intends to convert all of the ICF/IID's beds, the person notifies each of the ICF/IID's residents that the ICF/IID is to cease providing ICF/IID services and informs each resident that the resident may do either of the following:

(a) Continue to receive ICF/IID services by transferring to another ICF/IID willing and able to accept the resident if the resident continues to qualify for ICF/IID services;

(b) Begin to receive home and community-based services instead of ICF/IID services from any provider of home and community-based services that is willing and able to provide the services to the resident if the resident is eligible for the services and a slot for the services is available to the resident.

(4) If the person intends to convert some but not all of the ICF/IID's beds, the person notifies each of the ICF/IID's residents that the ICF/IID is to convert some of its beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services and inform each resident that the resident may do either of the following:

(a) Continue to receive ICF/IID services from any that is willing and able to provide the services to the resident if the resident continues to qualify for ICF/IID services;

(b) Begin to receive home and community-based services instead of ICF/IID services from any provider of home and community-based services that is willing and able to provide the services to the resident if the resident is eligible for the services and a slot for the services is available to the resident.

(5) The person meets the requirements for providing home and community-based services at a residential facility.

(B) The notice provided to the directors under division (A)(1) of this section shall specify whether some or all of the ICF/IID's beds are to be converted. If some but not all of the beds are to be converted, the notice shall specify how many of the ICF/IID's beds are to be converted and how many of the beds are to continue to provide ICF/IID services.

(C) On receipt of a notice under division (A)(1) of this section, the director of health shall do the following:

(1) Terminate the ICF/IID's medicaid certification if the notice specifies that all of the facility's beds are to be converted;

(2) Reduce the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity by the number of beds being converted if the notice specifies that some but not all of the beds are to be converted.

(D) The director of health shall notify the medicaid director of the termination or reduction under division (C) of this section. On receipt of the director of health's notice, the medicaid director shall do the following:

(1) Terminate the person's medicaid provider agreement that authorizes the person to provide ICF/IID services at the ICF/IID if the ICF/IID's medicaid certification was terminated;

(2) Amend the person's medicaid provider agreement to reflect the ICF/IID's reduced medicaid-certified capacity if the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity is reduced.

The medicaid director is not required to conduct an adjudication in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code when taking action under division (D)(1) or (2) of this section.

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

Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 483, §101.01, eff. 9/15/2014.

Renumbered from § 5111.875 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.

Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.33, HB 398, §1, eff. 8/31/2010.

Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.

Amended by 128th General Assemblych.9, SB 79, §1, eff. 10/6/2009.

Effective Date: 2008 HB562 06-24-2008