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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December 13, 2024
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio has released a new policy spotlight titled “School-Based Health Care and Medicaid.” In 2014, the federal government increased flexibility for states to…
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December 6, 2024
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio has released a new data brief titled “Mental Health Conditions among Ohio Children and Youth.” In recent years, rates of mental health conditions have …
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November 22, 2024
November is National Family Caregivers Month, and data from the AARP shows that in 2021 there were more than 1.4 million family caregivers in Ohio, the eighth most of any state in the country, as illu…
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November 15, 2024
Data included in the latest edition of America’s Health Rankings shows that Ohio is one of the top 10 states in the U.S. for percentage of residents served by water systems that have fluoridated…
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