(A) The department of developmental disabilities may charge each county board of developmental disabilities an annual fee not to exceed one and one-quarter per cent of the total value of all medicaid paid claims for home and community-based services provided during the year to an individual eligible for services from the county board. A county board shall not pass on to a provider of home and community-based services the cost of a fee charged to the county board under this section.

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(B) The amounts collected from the fees charged under this section shall be deposited into the department of developmental disabilities administration and oversight fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The department shall use the money in the fund for any of the following purposes:

(1) Medicaid administrative costs, including administrative and oversight costs of medicaid case management services and home and community-based services. The administrative and oversight costs of medicaid case management services and home and community-based services shall include costs for staff, systems, and other resources the department needs and dedicates solely to the following duties associated with the services:

(a) Eligibility determinations;

(b) Training;

(c) Fiscal management;

(d) Claims processing;

(e) Quality assurance oversight;

(f) Other duties the department identifies.

(2) Providing technical or financial support to county boards with respect to their medicaid local administrative authority under section 5126.055 of the Revised Code for the services.

(3) Providing technical or financial support to county boards with respect to their responsibility to pay the nonfederal share of expenditures under sections 5126.059 and 5126.0510 of the Revised Code.