{"id":657569,"date":"2026-10-26T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657569\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:58:08","slug":"ohios-crackdown-on-medicaid-fraud-cuts-off-care-for-some-disabled-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657569\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio\u2019s crackdown on Medicaid fraud cuts off care for some disabled people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-9f2bb0\" class=\"body-graf\">This article is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/disabled-and-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cDisabled and Denied,\u201d<\/a> a series examining cuts to Medicaid home care and the fallout for disabled people and their families.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ef032c\" class=\"body-graf\">COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Republican leaders frame Ohio\u2019s crackdown on Medicaid fraud as a way of protecting tax dollars and vulnerable people. But NBC News found that it has also made it harder for disabled residents to find reliable caregivers, blocking some from getting the daily support they need and endangering their health and independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article is part of \u201cDisabled and Denied,\u201d a series examining cuts to Medicaid home care and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-657569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}