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| To enact sections 505.59 and 753.022 of the Revised | 1 |
| Code regarding liability for medical care provided | 2 |
| to persons imprisoned in a municipal corporation's | 3 |
| institution or in the custody of a municipal | 4 |
| corporation's law enforcement officer. | 5 |
| Section 1. That sections 505.59 and 753.022 of the Revised | 6 |
| Code be enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
| Sec. 505.59. As regards medical care that a health care | 8 |
| provider not employed by, or under contract with, a municipal | 9 |
| corporation provides to a person who, on a township's behalf, is | 10 |
| imprisoned in an institution under the control of a municipal | 11 |
| corporation, both of the following apply: | 12 |
| (A) The township is not liable for medical care that is not | 13 |
| medically necessary; | 14 |
| (B) The township's liability to pay or reimburse for medical | 15 |
| care that is medically necessary is limited to an amount | 16 |
| equivalent to the amount medicaid would pay for the care provided | 17 |
| if medicaid covers the same kind of necessary medical care. | 18 |
| Medical care is medically necessary only if it is nonelective | 19 |
| and a person authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to | 20 |
| practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery | 21 |
| determines that it cannot be postponed until after a person is | 22 |
| released from imprisonment without endangering the person's life | 23 |
| or health. | 24 |
| Sec. 753.022. As regards medical care that a health care | 25 |
| provider not employed by, or under contract with, a municipal | 26 |
| corporation provides to a person who is imprisoned in an | 27 |
| institution under the control of, or who is in the custody of a | 28 |
| law enforcement officer of, the municipal corporation, both of the | 29 |
| following apply: | 30 |
| (A) The municipal corporation is not liable for medical care | 31 |
| that is not medically necessary; | 32 |
| (B) The municipal corporation's liability to pay or reimburse | 33 |
| for medical care that is medically necessary is limited to an | 34 |
| amount equivalent to the amount medicaid would pay for the care | 35 |
| provided if medicaid covers the same kind of necessary medical | 36 |
| care. | 37 |
| Medical care is medically necessary only if it is nonelective | 38 |
| and a person authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to | 39 |
| practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery | 40 |
| determines that it cannot be postponed until after a person is | 41 |
| released from imprisonment or custody without endangering the | 42 |
| person's life or health. | 43 |