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States Chart Path Forward on Paying Parents as Caregivers By Jessie Hellmann CQ-Roll Call/TNS
For Paige Hall, a single mother living in Eugene, Ore., getting paid by Medicaid to care for her son James during the pandemic was life-changing. She no longer had to worry about finding a reliable, qualified caregiver who could care for James, a nonspeaking 11-year-old with autism and severe drug-resistant epilepsy. But Hall’s $24-an-hour payments ended May 11 with the expiration of the declared public health emergency due to COVID-19.
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PROPOSED NEW RULE
Discrimination on the Basis Of Disability in Health Service Programs or Activities The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published on September 14, 2023 a proposed new rule, Document Number: 2023-19149, Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activities. This rule is the result of three years collecting information on disability discrimination in the health care and child welfare systems. It is open for comment for 60 days. https://mailchi.mp/omgknowsbest/ohio-developmental-disabilities-council-news-from-the-disability-community-tqa7ykcatg
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