Ohio Delays SMI Medicaid Health Home Rollout, With No New Target Date

On August 14, 2013, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (MHAS) announced that they again delayed the rollout of Medicaid health homes for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness and emotional disorders; no new rollout date was announced. Phase I of the rollout went live in Lucas, Butler, Scioto, Adams, and Lawrence counties in October 2012, with established health homes in the five counties enrolling 15,000 individuals. Phases II and III were to be implemented in the remaining 83 Ohio counties on October 1, 2013; however, the . . .