Ohio Admin. Code 3701-56-04 - Dental health resource shortage areas
(A) Dental health resource shortage areas
shall include the following:
(1) A geographic
area, facility (including federally qualified health centers), or population
group in this state that is
has been designated by the United States
secretary of health and human services as a dental health professional shortage
area under 42 C.F.R. in accordance with Appendix B to 42 C.F.R. Part 5
(1993).
(2) A geographic area, one
or more facilities within a particular area or a population group within a
particular area which:
(a) Has a population
to dentist ratio exceeding four thousand to one and is in an appalachian
county; or
(b) Has a population to
dentist ratio exceeding four thousand to one and a minority population which
exceeds seventy per cent; or
(c)
Has a low-income population (less than or equal to two hundred per cent of
poverty level) to
dentist serving the low-income
population
medicaid provider
(adjusted to full time equivalent) ratio exceeding four thousand to one;
or
(d) Has insufficient capacity,
such as unusually long wait time for new patient appointments (more than six
weeks for routine dental services ) or two-thirds of dentists do not accept new
patients; or
(e) Demonstrates the
population in the area experiences significant barriers to obtaining dental
care; or
(f) Has previously been
designated to be a dental health professional shortage area as described in
paragraph (A)(1) of this rule and has a population to dentist ratio exceeding
four thousand to one. but upon regular
redetermination by the director , no longer meets the criteria of paragraph
(A)(1) of this rule.
(3) A free clinic, as defined in section
3701.071 of the Revised Code,
regardless of whether a clinic is located in a geographic area that is
designated as a dental health resource shortage area .
(4)
Other areas or
population groups which the director has determined to have unmet needs for
dentists.
(B) In
determining priorities among
whether to approve an area, facility or population
as a dental health resource shortage areas, the director shall
consider:
(1) Population groups that
experience special oral health problems such as low-income, medicaid, minority,
migrant, homeless, nursing home residents and other population groups
determined by the director to have special oral health problems;
(2) Dentist practice patterns that limit
access to dental care.
(C) The director shall give priority to the
dental health resource shortage areas based on the following factors, with the
population to dentist ratio receiving the highest priority:
(1) Population to dentist ratio in the
shortage area;
(2) Per cent of the
population with incomes below the poverty level or other oral health status
indicators of the target population such as community water
fluoridation;
(3) Travel time or
distance to nearest source of care outside the dental health resource shortage
area ;
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3702.86
Rule Amplifies: 3702.86, 3702.88
Prior Effective Dates: 07/08/2004, 11/26/2009, 07/02/2015
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