Letter to Ohio Attorney General
Dear Attorney General Yost,
Please accept this communication as a formal courtesy notification that our organization is actively investigating systemic compliance anomalies, provider revalidation gaps, and administrative cost-shifting concerning special needs children within the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) and the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver infrastructure.
Be advised that our organization has bypassed local administrative logjams and successfully filed a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request directly with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
This request has been officially processed via FOIA.gov under Submission ID: 2940831 and routed directly to Joseph Tripline, Chief FOIA Officer for CMS.
Our federal inquiry explicitly targets all raw datasets, state revalidation metrics, corrective action plans, and cross-agency correspondence concerning the CMS Focused Program Integrity Review for the State of Ohio. This includes federal oversight communications regarding state-level whistleblower tips and the capacity metrics utilized by Ohio public schools under the January 1, 2026, "School Services Plan of Care" billing framework.
As a matter of state law, this letter serves as a formal directive to your office and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) to preserve all corresponding internal agency communications, audit logs, and notes regarding these specific data vectors.
We anticipate absolute, unredacted alignment between the federal disclosures we receive under Submission ID: 2940831 and the state-level public records requests currently pending with Ohio agencies. Any artificial friction, constructive denial, or unreasonable delays in producing corresponding state records will be aggressively documented to establish an explicit violation of the Ohio Public Records Act, R.C. § 149.43.
We look forward to the state's prompt adherence to its statutory transparency mandates.
Sincerely,
