(A) On receipt of a written notice under section 5124.50 of the Revised Code of a facility closure or voluntary termination, on receipt of a written notice under section 5124.51 of the Revised Code of a change of operator, or on the effective date of an involuntary termination, the department of developmental disabilities shall estimate the amount of any overpayments made under the medicaid program to the exiting operator, including overpayments the exiting operator disputes, and other actual and potential debts the exiting operator owes or may owe to the department and United States centers for medicare and medicaid services under the medicaid program, including a franchise permit fee.

(B) In estimating the exiting operator's other actual and potential debts to the department and the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services under the medicaid program, the department shall use a debt estimation methodology the director of developmental disabilities shall establish in rules authorized by section 5124.53 of the Revised Code. The methodology shall provide for estimating all of the following that the department determines are applicable:

(1) Refunds due the department under section 5124.41 of the Revised Code;

(2) Interest owed to the department and United States centers for medicare and medicaid services;

(3) Final civil monetary and other penalties for which all right of appeal has been exhausted;

(4) Money owed the department and United States centers for medicare and medicaid services from any outstanding final fiscal audit, including a final fiscal audit for the last fiscal year or portion thereof in which the exiting operator participated in the medicaid program;

(5) Other amounts the department determines are applicable.

(C) The department shall provide the exiting operator written notice of the department's estimate under division (A) of this section not later than thirty days after the department receives the notice under section 5124.50 of the Revised Code of the facility closure or voluntary termination; the department receives the notice under section 5124.51 of the Revised Code of the change of operator; or the effective date of the involuntary termination. The department's written notice shall include the basis for the estimate.

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