Ohio Code 4752.11 – Application for certificate of registration to provide home medical services
(A) A person seeking a certificate of registration to provide home medical equipment services shall apply to the state board of pharmacy on a form the board shall prescribe and provide. The application must be accompanied by the registration fee established in rules adopted under section 4752.17 of the Revised Code, except that the board may waive all or part of the fee if the board determines that an applicant’s certificate of registration will be issued in the last six months of the biennial registration period established under section 4752.12 of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4752.11
- Home medical equipment: means equipment that can stand repeated use, is primarily and customarily used to serve a medical purpose, is not useful to a person in the absence of illness or injury, is appropriate for use in the home, and is one or more of the following:
(1) Life-sustaining equipment prescribed by an authorized health care professional that mechanically sustains, restores, or supplants a vital bodily function, such as breathing;
(2) Technologically sophisticated medical equipment prescribed by an authorized health care professional that requires individualized adjustment or regular maintenance by a home medical equipment services provider to maintain a patient's health care condition or the effectiveness of the equipment;
(3) An item specified by the state board of pharmacy in rules adopted under division (B) of section 4752. See Ohio Code 4752.01
- Home medical equipment services: means the sale, delivery, installation, maintenance, replacement, or demonstration of home medical equipment. See Ohio Code 4752.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) The applicant shall specify in the application all of the following:
(1) The name of the facility from which services will be provided;
(2) The facility’s address;
(3) The facility’s telephone number;
(4) A person who may be contacted with regard to the facility;
(5) The name of the national accrediting body that issued the accreditation on which the application is based;
(6) The applicant’s accreditation number and the expiration date of the accreditation;
(7) A telephone number that may be used twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to obtain information related to the facility’s provision of home medical equipment services.