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Commissioners vote to join multi-county hospital funding consortium; appoint county representative
Summary
Hocking County commissioners approved a resolution to join a multi-county consortium designed to increase federal Medicaid reimbursement to a local hospital and appointed a commissioner to represent the county in the effort.
The Hocking County Board of Commissioners on June 5 approved a resolution to join a multi-county consortium that will collect a locally assessed tax from participating hospitals to seek enhanced federal Medicaid reimbursements, and the board appointed a county commissioner as the local representative to the consortium.
Commissioners described the structure presented at the meeting: participating hospitals would pay a locally assessed tax to the county, which would forward funds to a managing county auditor. Those funds would then be used to…
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