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JMOC Update and Healthy Ohio’s First Public Comment Hearing

On April 21st, the Ohio Department of Medicaid was busy with Director John McCarthy offering testimony before the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee (JMOC) in the morning as well as serving as host to the first of two required hearings for Ohio’s 1115 Demonstration proposal known as “Healthy Ohio” in the afternoon. During JMOC, the director...

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Over 30,000 Ohioans Affected by the End of Medicaid “Spend-down” Eligibility

The Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) is preparing to change the program’s disability determination process. Starting in July, 2016, the program will have a unified disability determination system, so that individuals who qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will automatically qualify for Medicaid. (In legal terms, this means the state is implementing section 1634 of...