OHA’s Medicaid Web site has updates and information on the coverage and financing of Medicaid for Ohio’s vulnerable and medically needy citizens, as well as OHA’s advocacy efforts to keep payments to hospitals adequate to cover the cost of care.
Medicaid is a state and federally funded program for eligible low-income and medically vulnerable people. The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) came into existence as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. SCHIP was designed to build on Medicaid to provide insurance coverage to “targeted low-income children” who are uninsured and not eligible for Medicaid, typically from families with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
In Ohio, Medicaid is administered by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) in conjunction with 88 corresponding county departments. In 2009, the federal government reimburses the state almost three-quarters of every dollar spent on Medicaid health care services in Ohio.
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