On March 29, 2016 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the long-awaited rule applying mental health and substance use disorders parity to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Mental health and substance abuse parity means that a health plan pays for treatment as it would if the patient was being

The Ohio Department of Medicaid is finalizing plans to eliminate spend-down and redesign disability determinations. The Governor’s Office of Health Transformation published a white paper that discusses the plans in detail. UHCAN Ohio outlined some of the changes in our March newsletter. Spend-down will be eliminated, and qualifying for Medicaid will mean meeting the income

For the past 6 months, UHCAN Ohio has been working to organize consumers, advocates, and organizations to oppose the #NotHealthy4Ohio waiver. As a result of this work, approximately 100 advocates, activists, and other organizations filled the hearing room at the Ohio Department of Medicaid in Columbus to provide comments –all opposing – on the Healthy