Day: December 21, 2016

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Overdose Deaths Continue to Climb in Ohio for All Drug Categories

The Ohio Department of Health released the 2015 Ohio Drug Overdose Data in August. The data clearly show an increase in deaths from heroin and fentanyl at unprecedented rates. The administration highlighted the progress that is being made from policies and practices implemented in the past four years, namely the reduction in prescription opioids dispensed...

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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...