Building Bridges Resources: Medical Care

One of the requirements to receive a Medicaid Waiver is to have Medicaid coverage. Sometimes, the services covered by Medicaid are not understood or even overlooked by families. Because of this, services families have available to them are not used. This toolkit provides information about Medicaid and the services you have available to you. In addition, to help clarify what is available, a Medicaid State Plan Services online course is now available in DODD MyLearning. This online course requires an OH|ID account to access.

Approximately 8% of individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid under the age of 65 have an intellectual disability or related condition. Providers and health plans are increasingly using personalized approaches in a managed long-term services and supports (LTSS) environment to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in achieving their individual goals. Resources for Integrated Care features resources to help providers and health plans collaborate more effectively, enhance their knowledge of health and support needs, and improve the coordination of services and supports to people with I/DD. For additional resources to support the coordination of services for individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in their home or community, please visit the Long-Term Services and Supports page.

DODD’s Regional Teams consist of subject matter experts within the DODD system to support people with developmental disabilities, families, guardians, providers, and county boards of developmental disabilities.

Clicking a county on the map will display the list of DODD subject matter experts assigned to the county and contact information for each DODD team member. For more information about the subject areas, please see the descriptions listed to the right of the map.

Medicaid is a federal entitlement program that funds health care for people with limited income and resources, including people with disabilities. Each state administers its own Medicaid program and has substantial authority over the eligibility criteria, so Medicaid programs vary widely from state-to-state. Certain services are required by federal law for the state programs to cover, while many of the covered services are determined by the state. In Ohio, the Ohio Department of Medicaid administers the state’s Medicaid program. Ohio also has several Medicaid home and community-based service (HCBS) waiver programs that provide long term services and supports to people with disabilities. The Ohio Department of Medicaid partners with other entities and state agencies, such as the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities and the Ohio Department of Aging, to administer its Medicaid waiver programs. This section provides information about Medicaid in Ohio.

Got Transition aims to help youth and young adults move from pediatric to adult health care.

This medical summary and emergency care plan is a fillable tool to share with the individual, parents / caregivers, and other professionals.

In Ohio, “advance directives” is the term used to describe three types of legal documents you can complete to express your wishes regarding your future health care: (1) a durable power of attorney for health care (POA), (2) a declaration for mental health treatment, and (3) a living will. An advance directive can be an important tool for you as a consumer of mental health and other disability services to guide your care should your attending physician determine that you lack capacity to make your own health care choices.

The first roundtable will provide an overview of the Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education. Developed in partnership with people with disabilities, disability experts, health educators, and health care providers, these are the skills and attributes essential to providing quality health care to patients with disabilities.

The PRACTICAL Tool was originally created by the American Bar Association for attorneys to help them identify and support implementing decision-making options for persons with disabilities that are less restrictive than guardianship. Like attorneys, healthcare providers may find themselves involved with families and patients as they navigate similar issues, and also like attorneys, little has been done historically to prepare them for attending to the full breadth of decision making support options available. This manual begins with the PRACTICAL Tool, amended for use by healthcare providers, and then moves into a more detailed overview of patient-centered care (Part I) and other decision making supports that do not involve the removal of rights (Part II).

Headquartered in The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Hilliard, the Center for Autism Services and Transition (CAST) offers clinical services for adult and transition-age-youth patients with autism.For adult patients diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and their families, CAST is the answer. It is the only place in central Ohio — and one of only a few places in the nation — where patients can access physicians with the experience to provide comprehensive care for adults with autism and to treat their related, often complex health care needs.

As a part of Ohio Medicaid’s effort to launch the next generation of Medicaid, ODM has launched OhioRISE (Resilience through Integrated Systems and Excellence), a specialized managed care program for youth with complex behavioral health and multisystem needs.

The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities has a very wide variety of resources and toolkits.