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...
Author: Jon Honeck (Jon Honeck)
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Commission on Infant Mortality has its first meeting
I attended the first meeting of the Commission on Infant Mortality last Wednesday in the Ohio Senate Finance Hearing Room. The meeting lasted for nearly 3 hours. Medicaid Director John McCarthy made the initial presentation, focusing on the new $13.4 million in the state budget for infant mortality work. He pointed out that Ohio’s high infant...