{"id":645993,"date":"2026-10-30T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:34:11","slug":"ohio-legislators-slam-gops-medicaid-fraud-crackdown-for-blocking-disabled-people-from-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645993\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio legislators slam GOP\u2019s Medicaid fraud crackdown for blocking disabled people from care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-31f34c\" 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-0749a4\" class=\"body-graf\">Democratic state legislators are calling on Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to lift his freeze on new Medicaid providers following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/ohio-crackdown-medicaid-fraud-cuts-care-disabled-people-rcna605023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an NBC News report<\/a> revealing that the anti-fraud measure has prevented some disabled people from receiving vital caregiving services.<\/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":645994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-645993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}