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
The problems with affordability significantly contribute to the relative unhealthy status and poor health value that Ohio has in comparison to other states
Medicaid Works! Millions of people in Ohio depend on Medicaid for their health care coverage. Many people’s jobs do not offer health care coverage or pay enough to allow a person to purchase their own coverage – people depend on Medicaid.
Health is shaped ultimately by “the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels” – all of which are political decisions.
