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Disability advocates and families call for direct‑care wage protections and overhaul of prior‑authorization vendors
Summary
Multiple witnesses urged the committee to require wage pass‑throughs for Medicaid rate increases, create a direct‑care workforce task force and to review extensive use of outside contractors for prior authorization and pharmacy benefits after families reported denials and dangerous delays.
Several witnesses described persistent workforce and administrative problems in Ohio’s Medicaid‑funded home‑and‑community‑based services and asked the House Medicaid Committee to take legislative steps to stabilize care.
Georgie Elson, a MiCare waiver recipient, and Jay Marie Sowers, whose adult daughter relies on Medicaid home care, praised recent rate increases but urged additional actions: a built‑in cost‑of‑living adjustment for direct‑care wages, a requirement that agencies pass rate increases through to…
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