State Budget
Gov. John Kasich's 2012-2013 state budget includes OHA's proposed hospital franchise fee and does NOT include anti-market Medicaid managed care "non-contracting" language.
Ohio hospitals are pleased the Ohio General Assembly and Gov. John Kasich’s administration finalized a state budget that includes the OHA Board-approved proposal to bring $1.2 billion in additional revenue to the state by temporarily extending the hospital franchise fee. Hospitals also appreciate that anti-market non-contracting language was removed. The provision would have forced hospitals into lopsided relationships with Medicaid managed care plans (MCPs) with no incentives for the plans to negotiate reasonable contracts with hospitals.
Learn more about what the budget will mean to your hospital/health system:
• View OHA's overview of state budget provisions impacting hospitals/health systems
• View a recording of last week's OHA member webinar on the budget or download the presentation
• View OHA's media statement
Opposition Paper: Anti-Market "Non-Contracting" (Medicaid managed care)
Fact sheet:Hospital Franchise Fee
Hospital Testimony
OHA's state budget goals include:
• Redesigning hospital franchise fee (minimizing hospital losses)
• Securing adequate funding for Medicaid
• Preserving HCAP
• Eliminating or reducing regulatory burdens
• Including OHA plan in governor’s budget proposal, and having it ultimately enacted
To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013...
No related legislation.
OHA Media Statement - President Barack Obama FFY 2013 Budget
February 15, 2012:
Earlier this week President Barack Obama’s administration released the FFY 2013 federal budget spending and policy targets. The package proposes a total of $364 billion in health savings over ten years, including $268 billion in Medicare provider cuts and $51 billion in Medicaid cuts. After review of this budget, OHA has made this initial statement:
“Ohio hospitals strongly believe all critical aspects of the health care system must be adequately supported, without undercutting some segments to provide for others. In the federal budget proposal submitted by President Obama, programs that provide training for future physicians, assure access to care in rural communities and support health care for the low-income seniors, families and children are all put at risk. As Congress begins to review this budget and addresses more immediate concerns with physician payment cuts, unemployment compensation and payroll taxes, hospitals welcome the opportunity to demonstrate how proposed budget cuts could have unintended consequences of health care job losses and reduced access to care,” said Mike Abrams, president and CEO of the Ohio Hospital Association.
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