Ohio Boards Agree on MR/DD Payment Rates

July 19, 2004 Ohio Boards Agree on MR/DD Payment Rates Rate increases for therapy to some disabled Ohioans will be rolled back under a compromise between the county agencies that provide the services and the state department that oversees Medicaid payments. In an agreement that Governor Bob Taft's staff negotiated between the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (DJFS) and representatives of local county boards of mental retardation in mid-June 2004, the rates introduced in January 2004 – and reduced slightly in April 2004 – will be replaced by even lower ones modeled after rates elsewhere in the . . .