The Ohio General Assembly has a rare opportunity to save millions of dollars while providing high-quality health care to thousands more Ohioans in the manner they prefer by rebalancing its Medicaid funding to provide more home care services.
Most states already are reaping the rewards of such action. But as Ohio now considers its next two-year state budget, it ranks 49th among the states - ahead only of Mississippi - in the percentage of Medicaid funds going to home care. A number of recent, independent studies clearly show the folly of this imbalance.
The most recent study, by the esteemed Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, looked at the cost of long-term care for Ohio's elderly - who receive most Medicaid dollars, although home care agencies serve a diverse population, including medically fragile children and the disabled.
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