Due Process
BELMONT-HARRISON-NOBLE
COUNTY BOARDS OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
ADMINISTRATIVE RESOLUTION OF COMPLAINTS
Through Person-Centered Planning, the County Board will support you as you identify your goals and make decisions about your own life. The SSAs, Community Supports Coordinators, or Transition Navigator will make the connections you need and coordinate supports, like respite, homemaker/personal care, transportation, employment, day programs and residential, to name a few. This allows you to focus on what you want out of life. We also monitor services to make sure they meet your needs. The County Board will assist in sharing a list of providers so you can choose who will deliver your services.
ELIGIBILITY
People seeking services must go through a state-mandated eligibility determination process.
Once you request services and provide the required information, the County Board determines eligibility within 45 days. The following is necessary before supports can start:
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Be a resident of either Belmont, Harrison or Noble County or approved by the appointing authority in other circumstances.
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Complete the Ohio Eligibility Determination Instrument (OEDI) or Children’s OEDI (ages 6 to 15 years).
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Be determined eligible through Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities definition and determination procedures.
WAITING LISTS
Waivers are one funding stream for services. By braiding together multiple resources like local programs, county board of developmental disabilities levy funds, and Ohio Medicaid State Plan benefits, someone may be able to have their service needs met without a waiver.
Changes to Ohio's Waiver Waiting List for home and community-based services waivers make it easier to identify a person's needs and coordinate needed services. The changes to the Waiting List include a statewide assessment tool used to better understand a person's need for services, and any current or immediate needs they may have.
I have a new immediate need
The County Board will work with you to access resources to address your immediate need. That might include using unpaid supports, local and community resources, county board funding, Medicaid state plan services including home health care and intermediate care facilities or waiver enrollment.
I need new or different services within 12 months
Because waivers are only one way to pay for services, the County Board will work with you to braid together many different types of resources, such as unpaid supports, local and community resources, county board supports or waiver enrollment.
I have new or different needs in the future
The County Board will work with you to provide additional services and resources as your needs change.
CONFIDENTIALITY
All information you share with the County Board is confidential and will not be shared
with others. The only time we share information is with the written consent of you and/or your parent/guardian.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESOLUTION OF COMPLAINTS
We encourage you to share any concerns you have with the staff or administration of the
County Board of Developmental Disabilities. All people supported by the Board are entitled to a
formal process for resolving differences known as the “Administrative Resolution of
Complaints.” Copies of this policy are available at the Board office and on the board’s website. Prior to initiating this process, however, all people supported are encouraged to bring their concerns to their SSA (or other board employees as appropriate). Most issues can be resolved through open dialogue and discussion.
If your services are funded through Medicaid, this process also applies.
DUE PROCESS
Medicaid Fair Hearing/Due Process Rights
Individuals who are enrolled on a waiver (IO, TDD, SELF or Level 1), or who have been placed on a waiting list for a waiver, are entitled to Medicaid Appeals/Due Process anytime Medicaid services are denied, terminated, reduced, delayed (placed on a waiting list) or approved. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is in charge of the hearing.
Call or write your local agency or write to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, State Hearings, 30 East Broad Street, 31st Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215-3414 or email the Bureau of State Hearings at BSH@jfs.ohio.gov.
If you receive a notice about denying, reducing, or stopping your assistance or services, fill out that form and mail it to State Hearings. You may also fax your hearing request to State Hearings at 614-728-9574.
Additional information on Ohio Department of Job and Family State Hearings may be found at http://jfs.ohio.gov/ols/bsh/faq.stm.
An individual or guardian can request a hearing; someone else may request on behalf of an individual 18 or over who does not have a guardian if the individual provides a written statement giving permission for a person to serve as his or her “Authorized Representative.”
The individual’s name, social security number, and the action you want to appeal must be provided. A lawyer, welfare rights worker, friend, or relative can help with the hearing. To see if you qualify for free legal help, contact your local Legal Aid Office by calling 1-800-589-5888.
For more information on Medicaid due process, contact your SSA or the office of the County Department of Job and Family Services.
REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF RIGHTS
Any person with an intellectual and/or developmental disability, who believes that his/her rights have been violated, or any other person, may bring the violation to the attention of the appropriate service provider or may report the violation to any of the following agencies:
BELMONT COUNTY BOARD OF DD, 68421 Hammond Road, St. Clairsville, OH 43950
HARRISON COUNTY BOARD OF DD, 82480 Cadiz-Jewett Road, Cadiz, OH 43907
NOBLE COUNTY BOARD OF DD, 46049 Marietta Road, Caldwell, OH 43724
OHIO DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, 30 East Broad St., Suite 1280, Columbus, OH 43215
1-800-231-5872 www.dodd.ohio.gov
DISABILITY RIGHTS OHIO, 200 S. Civic Center Dr. 300, Columbus, OH 43215
1-800-282-9181 www.disabilityrightsohio.org
COUNTY BOARD 24-HOUR ON-CALL LINE