As regards medical care that a health care provider not employed by, or under contract with, the City provides to a person who is imprisoned in an institution under the control of, or who is in the custody of a law enforcement officer of the City, both of the following apply:
(a) The City is not liable for medical care that is not medically necessary;
(b) The City’s liability to pay or reimburse for medical care that is medically necessary is limited to an amount equivalent to the amount Medicaid would pay for the care provided if Medicaid covers the same kind of necessary medical care.
Medical care is medically necessary only if it is nonelective and a person authorized under Chapter 4731 of the Ohio Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery determines that it cannot be postponed until after a person is released from imprisonment or custody without endangering the person’s life or health.
(Ord. 2009-4. Passed 2-2-09.)
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