Ohio Medicaid

Medicaid participants will have to choose from seven managed care plans - and if they don't let the state know, they could end up in a group that is assigned a plan.

The state is requiring people receiving Medicaid benefits to let the state know which provider they'll use, which is a change for those already in the program.

The Buckeye Institute says Medicaid recipients will lose the opportunity to make money and get needed job skills without the requirement.

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Ohio has settled a lawsuit filed just three months ago with a pharmacy benefits manager it accused of using subcontractors to overcharge Ohio’s Medicaid...

The state has selected six managed care organizations to carry out Medicaid services, amounting to a $20 billion contract, but a provision in the Senate's budget proposal would stop that procurement process and require the state to consider other measures.

The recently launched OhioRISE helps those who have serious mental and behavioral health issues.

The increase in Ohio Medicaid caseloads could have blown a hole in the new two-year state budget. But the spending plan includes a huge infusion of federal cash for the state’s largest part of the budget, the health insurance program for the poor.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Ohio has exceeded 100. There are now 119 cases in 24 Ohio counties, that's up from 88 cases Wednesday. Cases among men…

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