Bill > SB296

This bill amends Ohio's Medicaid regulations regarding the personal needs allowance for residents of nursing homes and Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICFs/IID), which is the amount of money Medicaid recipients are allowed to keep for personal expenses after paying for their care. The bill declares the General Assembly's intent to increase the monthly personal needs allowance from fifty dollars to seventy-five dollars for an individual resident and from one hundred dollars to one hundred fifty dollars for married couples where both spouses are in the same type of care facility. The Medicaid director will be required to implement these increases and, going forward, adjust the amounts annually based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rounding the percentage increase to the nearest one-tenth of one percent. The bill specifies that if there is no increase in the CPI, no adjustment will be made. This change aims to provide more financial flexibility for Medicaid recipients in long-term care facilities by allowing them to retain a slightly larger portion of their monthly income for personal expenses.

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https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/sb296