Effective: July 1, 2018
Latest Legislation: House Bill 24 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) For each fiscal year until fiscal year 2022 and for the purpose of division (C) of section 5124.15 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine each ICF/IID's per medicaid day payment rate for other protected costs. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an ICF/IID's rate shall be determined prospectively. An ICF/IID's rate shall be the ICF/IID's desk-reviewed, actual, allowable, per diem other protected costs from the calendar year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the rate is determined, all adjusted for the estimated inflation rate for the eighteen-month period beginning on the first day of July of the calendar year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the rate is determined and ending on the thirty-first day of December of that fiscal year. The department shall estimate inflation using the index specified in division (B) of this section. If the estimated inflation rate for the eighteen-month period is different from the actual inflation rate for that period, the difference shall be added to or subtracted from the inflation rate estimated for the following year.
(B) The department shall use the following index for the purpose of division (A) of this section:
(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, the consumer price index for all urban consumers for nonprescription drugs and medical supplies, as published by the United States bureau of labor statistics;
(2) If the United States bureau of labor statistics ceases to publish the index specified in division (B)(1) of this section, the index that is subsequently published by the bureau and covers nonprescription drugs and medical supplies.
(C) This section is obsolete beginning July 1, 2021.