Thread by @lorenanthes

.@BrieZeltner's reporting highlights the connections btw lead, housing, education and #Medicaid that need to be made.

One thing: Managed care plans in #Ohio can be REQUIRED to improve screening this or have their $ impacted.

cleveland.com/metro/2019/01/…

#Ohio performs poorly on most child-based metrics: communitysolutions.com/managed-care-o…

@MikeDeWine has stated that looking at the plans' contracts to improve HEDIS performance is on the table. Good. They should be at risk for improving the screening rates. cc: @JoEllenCorrigan

For example: across all of the adolescent metrics tracked by the state, NO plan achieved above the 75th percentile in any given measure:

To be honest, there are things within Medicaid and out that should be prioritized by the state. I wrote about this in fall 2017, a summary of which you can find here: communitysolutions.com/research/housi…

.@OhioMedicaid also had a policy approved by the fed to finance lead abatement via the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): medicaid.gov/CHIP/Downloads…

One thing @MikeDeWine should consider is significantly increasing the investment for this program and ramp up abatement.

I would also add that we need a more comprehensive view of housing and health, state-level and locally, to address these issues. That includes topics like the housing trust fund, medicaid expansion, affordability, vouchers, rental assistance, etc.

Read: crainscleveland.com/opinion/person…