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Ohio Medicaid explains emergency rule to collect expanded hospital franchise fee
Summary
Director of the Ohio Department of Medicaid told the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review that an emergency rule, signed by the governor, was filed to allow collection of an expanded hospital franchise fee tied to the pending state budget; a permanent rule is underway through the Common Sense Initiative.
Director Patrick Corcoran of the Ohio Department of Medicaid told the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review that the department filed an emergency rule, signed by the governor, to implement collection of an expanded hospital franchise fee tied to the state budget.
Corcoran said the hospital franchise fee is "the broad based tax that is charged to hospitals," and that the emergency filing was intended as a "belt and suspenders" step because the current biennial budget adopted by the legislature includes a significant increase in revenue from that tax.
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