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Prior to July 2013, ODJFS was also the state agency responsible for the administration of Ohio's Medicaid program. In July 2013, a new state agency was created, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM), Ohio’s first Executive-level Medicaid agency. ODJFS employs about 2,300 full time employees and has an annual budget of $3.3 billion. [2]
The same report said the state paid more than $1 billion for services to people enrolled in multiple states over a four-year period. Ohio spent $28.5 billion on Medicaid at the end of fiscal year ...
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. tsuddes@gmail.com. Among many things 16-year Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes is ...
The new "next generation" Medicaid system was set to launch in July. Now, most of the changes will be pushed back to the end of the year. Rollout of new Ohio Medicaid health plans delayed until ...
In 2013, a report from Ohio Hospital Association states that CareSource is the No. 2 health insurer in the state by premium revenue. [29] CareSource celebrated 25 years as one of the nation's largest Managed Medicaid Plans and the largest in Ohio in 2014. The company then served more than 1 million consumers in Ohio and Kentucky. [30]
Nearly 40% of Ohio's budget is spent on Medicaid, insuring low-income residents, but is that investment reflected in how healthy its residents are? Ohio ranks sixth in the nation for Medicaid ...
Sebelius (2012) that this withdrawal of funding was unconstitutionally coercive and that individual states had the right to opt out of the Medicaid expansion without losing pre-existing Medicaid funding from the federal government. For states that do expand Medicaid, the law provides that the federal government will pay for 100% of the ...