{"data":{"id":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-341.192","jurisdiction":"us-oh","citation":"Ohio Rev. Code § 341.192","heading":"Payment of outside medical provider for necessary care.","body":"(A) As used in this section:\n(1) \"Jail\" means a county jail, or a multicounty, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal correctional center.\n(2) \"Medical provider\" means a physician, hospital, laboratory, pharmacist, pharmacy, or other health care provider that is not employed by or under contract to a county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation and correction to provide medical services to persons confined in a jail or state correctional institution, or is in the custody of a law enforcement officer.\n(3) \"Necessary care\" means medical care of a nonelective nature that cannot be postponed until after the period of confinement of a person who is confined in a jail or state correctional institution, or is in the custody of a law enforcement officer without endangering the life or health of the person.\n(B) If a physician employed by or under contract to a county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation and correction to provide medical services to persons confined in a jail or state correctional institution determines that a person who is confined in the jail or state correctional institution or who is in the custody of a law enforcement officer prior to the person's confinement in a jail or state correctional institution requires necessary care that the physician cannot provide, the necessary care shall be provided by a medical provider. The county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation and correction shall pay a medical provider for necessary care an amount not exceeding the authorized reimbursement rate for the same service established by the department of medicaid under the medicaid program.","path":["Title 3 Counties","Chapter 341 Jails"],"source_url":"https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-341.192","current_through":"2019-04-05 (Senate Bill 265 - 132nd General Assembly)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:24:27Z","sha256":"e06694aefc7faf6a500d888115ecf70f352c6daf2cee65c203cf04e688e43fe2","source_id":"us-oh","stale":false,"prev":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-341.191","next":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-341.20"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}