Ohio legislative panel clears $902M in Medicaid spending
COLUMBUS, OHIO A state funding allotment crucial to doctors, hospitals and other Ohio Medicaid providers cleared a powerful legislative panel Monday given extraordinary authority over the government health program. Medicaid Director Barbara Sears told the state Controlling Board ahead of its unanimous vote that failing to authorize Ohio's $264 million share of program spending risked "devastating" consequences for program providers and the 3 million Ohioans that Medicaid serv