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State Commission Seeks to Prevent Malnutrition Among Older Ohioans

Last year, the Ohio General Assembly passed a bill (sponsored by Senator Gayle Manning) that established a Malnutrition Prevention Commission, the aim of which is to prevent malnutrition among older adults in the state and identify opportunities for health care cost savings related to the problem of malnutrition. The commission met for the first time...

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Updates on Changes to Disability Determination and Elimination of Medicaid Spend-down, now known as Disability Determination Redesign (DDR)

Earlier this year, a CCS blog post, and subsequent Common Ground, provided an overview of the State of Ohio’s plan to transition to a unified disability determination system thus ending the Medicaid spend-down program. Advocates have worked closely together, and with the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM), to learn about this change and how current...

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The Social Services Block Grant is under attack. What does this mean for Ohio?

The House Ways and Means Committee announced last week that Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) is sponsoring legislation that would end the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), a $1.7 billion dollar grant allocated to states to fund numerous critical social service programs. And on Wednesday, this bill was one of several that passed through the Committee,...

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Poverty is everywhere…even in Geauga County

According to the most recent data made available by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), Cuyahoga County is home to the greatest number of low-income residents in the state. About 18 percent of the population lives at or below the poverty threshold, about $19,000 for a family of three. In the city of...

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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...