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Lawmakers easily approve changes to Ohio Medicaid after earlier controversy
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Republican-backed bill that began the week banning Medicaid payments to family caregivers in Ohio ended up without that provision and with overwhelming approval, even… Read More
A report indicates more than half a million Ohioans could lose Medicaid coverage in the next decade
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A new report shows recent cuts in funding from Ohio’s Medicaid budget will force more than a half a million Ohioans off the program… Read More
Cancer survivors are among those who want Ohio to ban insurance accumulators
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio bill introduced in 2025 would require health insurance agencies to recognize all payments, including coupons or copay assistance, as going to a patient’s… Read More
Estimates show one-fifth of Ohioans with ACA subsidies are dropping health insurance
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — As 2026 begins, estimates suggest 20% of Ohioans who got health insurance through the Affordable Care Act with subsidies last year are opting out… Read More
Republicans grapple with voter frustration over rising health care premiums
By: Joey Cappelletti | Ali Swenson | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The first caller on a telephone town hall with Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, leader of the House’s conservative Freedom Caucus, came ready with a question about the… Read More
A bipartisan bill in Ohio would require health insurers to pay for prosthetics
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — When someone loses a limb, they often get a prosthetic device. But many of those devices cannot get wet or are made in a way… Read More
The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio has seen an increase in the number of children without health insurance since the unwinding of pandemic-era Medicaid continuous coverage. From 2022 to 2024,… Read More
Ohio will pilot adding prior authorization requirements to Medicare
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Many private health insurers require medical providers to get approval before administering treatment, sometimes resulting in delayed or denied care for patients. Now, that tactic,… Read More
Advocates hope a new law could help more farmers afford health coverage
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Each morning, Sarah Ison greets a coop of talkative chicks at her farm in southwest Ohio’s Clermont County. They strut in excitement as… Read More
A new study suggests eliminating Ohio’s Medicaid expansion would have costs beyond the state’s projections
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The new two-year state budget includes language that would end Medicaid expansion for around 757,000 Ohioans if the federal match drops below 90%. The state… Read More
Advocates for low-income Ohioans urge the state to be flexible to brace for Medicaid cuts
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — One in four Ohioans rely on Medicaid to see a doctor or go to the hospital, including 1.3 million children. The federal budget contains… Read More
An Ohio lawmaker who used weight loss drug has a plan for state workers losing GLP-1 coverage
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Republican state lawmaker who lost hundreds of pounds through a popular weight loss drug said he’s concerned that state health insurance coverage for… Read More
With a tax increase shot down at the polls, Athens leaders face limited options for reining in expenses
By: David Forster
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The mayor of Athens says he doesn’t have many good options when it comes to trimming the city’s budget now that a proposed income tax increase… Read More
Another election year battle over Affordable Care Act threatens coverage for millions
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsHour) — The number of Americans getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act has hit a record high with more than 21 million people signed up through… Read More
Medicare Advantage keeps growing. Tiny, rural hospitals say that’s a huge problem
By: Sarah Jane Tribble | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Jason Bleak runs Battle Mountain General Hospital, a small facility in a remote Nevada gold-mining town that he describes as “out here in the middle of nowhere.”… Read More
How algorithms are being used to deny health insurance claims in bulk
By: Ali Rogin | Kaisha Young | Juliet Fuisz | PBS NewsHour
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WASHINGTON (NewsHour) — Federal data shows that health insurance companies denied more than 49 millions claims in 2021, but customers appealed less than 0.2 percent of them. Investigative journalists at ProPublica… Read More
Medicaid renewals are starting. Those who don’t reenroll could get kicked off
By: Maria Godoy I NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Dominique Jackson has been on Medicaid for seven years. But the Columbus, Ohio, resident didn’t realize he’d have to verify his eligibility every year to keep his… Read More
Pandemic rules for Medicaid enrollment are ending soon. Here’s what that means
By: John Yang | Andrew Corkery | PBS NewsHour
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WASHINGTON (NewsHour) — The nation’s uninsured rate reached an all-time low during the pandemic, largely because Congress temporarily blocked states from kicking people off Medicaid even if they were no… Read More
Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit
By: Noam Levey | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Despite growing evidence of the harm caused by medical debt, hundreds of U.S. hospitals maintain policies to aggressively pursue patients for unpaid bills, using tactics such… Read More
How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions
By: Fred Schulte | Holly K. Hacker | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry… Read More
Hidden audits reveal millions in overcharges by Medicare Advantage plans
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000… Read More
Group warns health care costs could increase dramatically for some Ohioans soon
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Democrats and advocates for Ohioans who receive subsidies for health care are urging Congress to pass a bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act… Read More
Health insurance prices for care are out there, but finding them is hard
By: Julie Appleby | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much. That’s the reaction about three weeks into a data dump of enormous proportions. Health… Read More
Advocates worry new law could lead to vulnerable Ohioans being kicked off Medicaid
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency that the federal government declared in January 2020 is set to expire on Saturday. That’s likely to be extended… Read More
A staffing crisis is causing a monthslong wait for Medicaid, and it could get worse
By: Bram Sable Smith | Rachana Pradhan | Kaiser Health News
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SALEM, Mo. (NPR) — Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can’t afford more bills without any insurance coverage…. Read More