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Hocking County commissioners join multi-county hospital financing consortium, appoint county representative
Summary
At the June 5 meeting the Hocking County Board of Commissioners voted to join a multi-county consortium that would collect a hospital tax used to draw federal Medicaid matching funds and appointed a county representative to the consortium.
The Hocking County Board of Commissioners voted June 5 to join a multijurisdictional consortium intended to increase federal Medicaid reimbursement for local hospitals and to appoint a county representative to participate in consortium governance.
Commissioners described the program as an arrangement under which participating hospitals would remit a local assessment to the county; the county would then aggregate those funds and the participating counties would pursue state and federal reimbursement that, if approved, would generate additional federal Medicaid dollars. At the…
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