Chairwoman Gross and Members of the House Medicaid Committee, I am writing in strong and urgent opposition to Section (M) of Substitute House Bill 795. This amendment would prohibit Medicaid payment for personal care services provided by family members to waiver participants under Ohio’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver system. Its definition of “family member” is broad, encompassing spouses, parents, children, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, nep