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Hocking County commissioners approve joining hospital tax consortium to increase Medicaid drawdown
Summary
The Hocking County Board of Commissioners voted June 5 to join a multi-county consortium that would levy a county-collected hospital tax to increase Medicaid reimbursement, and appointed a county commissioner as the county's representative to the consortium.
The Hocking County Board of Commissioners voted June 5 to join a multi-county hospital tax consortium intended to increase federal Medicaid reimbursements to local hospitals, and appointed a county commissioner to represent Hocking County in the consortium.
Commissioners described the program as one already used in other states (including Texas and Florida) and in some other U.S. counties; county officials said the mechanism asks the hospital…
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