Accomplishments

Dental Care

• UHCAN Ohio and our partners successfully defeated the 2016 NotHealthy4Ohio waiver that would have resulted in over a 100,000 people losing Medicaid coverage
• For the 2018 waiver proposed requiring new burdens on the Medicaid expansion population,  UHCAN Ohio collected and submitted 585 comments to the Ohio Department of Medicaid.
• UHCAN Ohio has collected 25 stories from people who have depended on Medicaid for their health care coverage.  We have used these stories with the media and in our testimony to oppose harmful changes.

Medicaid

• The project organized 3 successful Advocacy Days, where supporters met with their legislators to ask them to sponsor dental therapist legislation.
• It grew the number of organizations that support us from 62 to 88, including diverse groups such as Ohio Public Health Association, Americans for Prosperity, and Ohio Dental Hygiene Association.
• And it obtained Legislative sponsor for dental therapist legislation, Senator Peggy Lehner, who introduced SB330 during the 2016 legislative session to add dental therapists to the dentist-led team.

Medicare/Medicaid

• UHCAN Ohio has trained consumer advisory committees for two of the MyCare plans to help the participants provide meaningful input on systems changes that will lead to quality improvement.
• OCVIC Coalition leadership meets regularly with the leadership of Medicaid, the managed care plans and consumers to communicate common concerns that are being experienced by those with MyCare.
• UHCAN conducted a survey of over 3,000 MyCare members to identify the challenges they are having in getting quality healthcare under the plans.  The two major findings were problems with care coordination and durable medical equipment.

Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage

• Along with many partners, OCHC was successful in securing the 2013 expansion of Medicaid to include over 600,000 Ohioans.
• OCHC has engaged its member organizations in successfully opposing the State of Ohio’s 1115 “Healthy Ohio” waiver request by disseminating information about the waiver impact, filing comments and providing testimony on state hearings on the waiver request.
• OCHC has convened a monthly “feedback” loop since 2014 that has identified key barriers in Marketplace and other health plans and developed strategies to address them.
• In 2015, OCHC supplied testimony and other input that improved the Ohio Department of Insurance rule requiring health plans to maintain accessible and up to date provider network listings.

Youth Substance Use

• UHCAN Ohio has a commitment of Portsmouth City Schools to pilot SBIRT in its 7^th grade.
• We have provided the technical support on SBIRT to move one school board to approve SBIRT in its district in Southwest Ohio.
• We have provided the technical support to move SBIRT forward in 4 Franklin County school districts.

Patient Centered Medical Home

• The Office of Health Transformation incorporated changes to the PCMH model that reflected UHCAN Ohio comments on the relationship with consumers, including getting input and sharing the results of surveys and quality improvement efforts.

• UHCAN Ohio worked with Community Catalyst to create training material and guidance for patient and family advisory council training.

UHCAN Ohio's Annual Reports