173-45-01. Long-term care consumer guide: introduction and definitions

(A) Introduction: This chapter governs the Ohio long-term care consumer guide that ODA electronically publishes to provide the public with detailed information on Ohio's long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, residential care facilities, skilled nursing facility units of hospitals, county homes certified to receive medicare and medicaid reimbursement, and residential facilities. The information includes a facility's size, location, services offered, customer satisfaction data, regulatory compliance performance data, and, in the case of nursing facilities, quality measures. The guide's information allows the public to compare two or more facilities. The guide may also include detailed information about other types of long-term care providers.

(B) Definitions for this chapter:

"CMS" means "centers for medicare and medicaid services."

"Facility" means a nursing facility. residential care facility, or residential facility.

"Guide" means the "Ohio long-term care consumer guide," which was created by ODA in accordance with section 173.46 of the Revised Code.

"Medicaid" has the same meaning as in section 5162.01 of the Revised Code.

"Medicare" has the same meaning as in section 5162.01 of the Revised Code.

"Nursing facility" means either of the following:

(1) A facility, or a distinct part of a facility, that is certified a nursing facility or a skilled nursing facility for purposes of the medicare or medicaid program.

(2) A nursing home licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code that is not certified as a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility.

"ODA" means "the Ohio department of aging."

"ODH" means "the Ohio department of health."

"Quality measure" means an aspect of the physical or mental conditions of the residents of a nursing facility that is derived from the resident assessment instruments submitted by nursing facilities to CMS for the purposes of the medicare and medicaid programs.

"Residential care facility" has the same meaning as in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code.

"Residential facility" has the same meaning as in section 173.45 of the Revised Code.

Effective: 11/16/2020
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 9/1/2020 and 11/14/2025
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 121.07, 173.01, 173.02, 173.49 ; 42 U.S.C. 1396a
Rule Amplifies: 173.44 to 173.49 ; 42 U.S.C. 1396a
Prior Effective Dates: 01/12/2001, 09/07/2006, 08/30/2010, 12/19/2013, 12/01/2015