OHIO LAWMAKERS’ LATE-NIGHT STEALTH spared Medicaid contractor Gainwell from a state committee probe. Hours before Ohio legislators voted on the must-pass state budget, top negotiators slipped in a provision to disband the committee probing contracts with the nation’s largest Medicaid claims processor.
- Republican leaders in Ohio’s House and Senate inserted new language dissolving the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee at about 2 a.m. on June 25, according to committee members and other state lawmakers. Some panel members said they were unaware of the change before they needed to vote that same day.
- Ohio is one of many states that work with ...