April 7, 2025
April is Minority Health Month and data included in HPIO’s 2024 Health Value Dashboard shows that if disparities were eliminated in Ohio, 62,760 fewer Black Ohioans and 37,695 fewer Hispanic Ohi…
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April 4, 2025
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio has released a new publication titled “State Policy Roadmap: Leveraging Medicaid to Support Housing and Nutrition in Ohio.” This Roadmap reflects insig…
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March 27, 2025
As Ohio and federal policymakers consider the future of expanded Medicaid eligibility, a new illustration from HPIO shows examples of the types of jobs with average pay that would currently make Ohioa…
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March 21, 2025
Data included in a recent HPIO data snapshot shows that a federal expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) led to a sharp drop in child poverty, as illustrated above. HPIO released last week a new dat…
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March 14, 2025
HPIO has released a new brief titled “Policy Considerations: The Future of Group VIII (expansion) Medicaid Coverage in Ohio.”In 2014, when Ohio expanded Medicaid eligibility under the fede…
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March 7, 2025
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio has released a new publication titled Public Health Basics, which offers detailed insights into the state's public health services, workforce and the challenges the…
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February 28, 2025
Data compiled by HPIO shows that more than 770,000 Ohioans (over 6% of the total population) are enrolled in Medicaid through Group VIII (also known as the expansion group). The highest rates of enrol…
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February 21, 2025
Data shows that there has been a steady increase in educational attainment among Black Ohioans over the course of nearly a century, as illustrated above. During Black History Month and every month, we…
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February 7, 2025
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio has released the 11th edition of Ohio Medicaid Basics, a primer that provides an overview of the Medicaid program in Ohio. Published every other year since 2005,…
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January 17, 2025
January is Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month and new analysis by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio found that thousands of Ohioans who need drug or alcohol treatment are not receiving it. As i…
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January 10, 2025
HPIO analysis that was included in its recently released policy spotlight “School-Based Health Care and Medicaid" found that the percentage of children ages 6-18 that were covered by public heal…
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December 18, 2024
New data included in HPIO’s recently released data brief “Mental Health Conditions among Ohio Children and Youth” shows that children in Ohio with anxiety were slightly more likely t…
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