Affordable care Act

Report: Expanding Medicaid in Ohio Would Reduce Uninsured Residents by Half

Associated Press and Dayton Daily News — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:04:00 +0000

A new national report says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Ohio under the Affordable Care Act would reduce the number of uninsured residents by half.

It would also cost the state an additional $3.1 billion in the next decade.

The Dayton Daily News says the numbers come from a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington-based nonpartisan health care policy research organization.

Ohio Medicaid to Become Stand Alone Agency

Karen Kasler (Ohio Public Radio) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:30:00 +0000

The plan is to make Ohio Medicaid a cabinet-level agency starting halfway through the next two year budget cycle on July 1, 2014. Right now Medicaid is housed in the Department of Job and Family Services, but is also administered by five other state agencies. Greg Moody is the head of the Governor’s Office of Health Transformation.

“We realized that the organization of the program itself was stifling innovation," says Moody.