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Family warns lawmakers cutting parental income disregard would force costly placements; ODDS explains program scope
Summary
A parent testified that removing the parental income disregard would "devastate" access to therapies and could force families to institutionalize children; ODDS explained the disregard treats the child as a family of one for Medicaid eligibility and said roughly 2,400 children currently receive waiver services because of it.
The Senate Human Services Committee heard an informational briefing and family testimony on the parental income disregard, a Medicaid eligibility rule used in Oregon's developmental disability waivers to count a child as a family of one for financial eligibility.
ODDS interim director Darlene O'Keefe and policy manager Caitlin Shockley explained the three‑part eligibility test (diagnosis/medical criteria, qualifying level of care, and Medicaid financial/nonfinancial eligibility) and said the…
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