Section 3701-30-02 - Primary health care provider responsibilityPrimary health care providers of children under six years of age shall do the following:
(A) Determine if the child has had a blood lead screening test. If the child has had a blood lead screening test, determine at what age the child was tested and the blood lead screening test result.(B) If the child has not had a blood lead screening test and is between the ages of nine months and seventy-two months, determine if the child is at risk of lead poisoning as defined in paragraph (C) of rule 3701-30-01 of the Administrative Code.(C) If any child under six years of age is determined to be at risk of lead poisoning but has not had a blood lead screening test or has had a blood lead screening test but the results are not available, the primary health care provider shall order a blood lead screening test. A child at risk of lead poisoning shall have a blood lead screening test at the time of the child's one and two year well child visits and annually thereafter as medically indicated.(D) The primary health care provider shall make a good faith effort to obtain results of all blood lead screening tests performed on a child at risk of lead poisoning.(E) Nothing in this rule is intended to preclude a primary health care provider from following the procedures in Chapter 5160. of the Revised Code for medicaid eligible children or from ordering blood lead screening tests on a child less than nine months of age or greater than six years of age.Ohio Admin. Code 3701-30-02
Effective: 10/25/2021
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 6/2/2026
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3742.45
Rule Amplifies: 3742.30
Prior Effective Dates: 04/01/2004, 11/20/2014, 06/13/2021