Effective: September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the department of medicaid may recover a medicaid payment or portion of a payment made to a medicaid provider to which the provider is not entitled if the department notifies the provider of the overpayment during the five-year period immediately following the end of the state fiscal year in which the overpayment was made.
(2) In the case of a hospital medicaid provider, if the department determines as a result of a medicare or medicaid cost report settlement that the provider received an amount under the medicaid program to which the provider is not entitled, the department may recover the overpayment if the department notifies the provider of the overpayment during the later of the following:
(a) The five-year period immediately following the end of the state fiscal year in which the overpayment was made;
(b) The one-year period immediately following the date the department receives from the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services a completed, audited, medicare cost report for the provider that applies to the state fiscal year in which the overpayment was made.
(B) Among the overpayments that may be recovered under this section are the following:
(1) Payment for a medicaid service, or a day of service, not rendered;
(2) Payment for a day of service at a full per diem rate that should have been paid at a percentage of the full per diem rate;
(3) Payment for a medicaid service, or day of service, that was paid by, or partially paid by, a third party, as defined in section 5160.35 of the Revised Code, and the third party's payment or partial payment was not offset against the amount paid by the medicaid program to reduce or eliminate the amount that was paid by the medicaid program;
(4) Payment when a medicaid recipient's responsibility for payment was understated and resulted in an overpayment to the provider.
(C) The department may recover an overpayment under this section prior to or after any of the following:
(1) Adjudication of a final fiscal audit that section 5164.38 of the Revised Code requires to be conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code;
(2) Adjudication of a finding under any other provision of state statutes governing the medicaid program or the rules adopted under those statutes;
(3) Expiration of the time to issue a final fiscal audit that section 5164.38 of the Revised Code requires to be conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code;
(4) Expiration of the time to issue a finding under any other provision of state statutes governing the medicaid program or the rules adopted under those statutes.
(D)(1) Subject to division (D)(2) of this section, the recovery of an overpayment under this section does not preclude the department from subsequently doing the following:
(a) Issuing a final fiscal audit in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, as required under section 5164.38 of the Revised Code;
(b) Issuing a finding under any other provision of state statutes governing the medicaid program or the rules adopted under those statutes.
(2) A final fiscal audit or finding issued subsequent to the recovery of an overpayment under this section shall be reduced by the amount of the prior recovery, as appropriate.
(E) Nothing in this section limits the department's authority to recover overpayments pursuant to any other provision of the Revised Code.