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Hocking County joins multi-county hospital funding consortium to increase Medicaid reimbursement
Summary
Commissioners voted June 5 to join a multi-county consortium that would levy a county-level hospital assessment to draw additional federal Medicaid matching funds, and appointed a county representative to the consortium.
Hocking County commissioners voted June 5 to join a multi-county consortium that will assess participating hospitals and use the collected funds to seek additional federal Medicaid matching dollars.
County commissioners said the arrangement mirrors programs enacted in other states and counties that assess hospitals and then use those funds to draw larger federal Medicaid reimbursements. Commissioners described the arrangement as an effort to increase net reimbursement to Hocking Valley Community Hospital for patients covered by Medicaid, not as a tax on consumers.
County officials said Medicaid reimbursements…
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