Report: Ohio making ‘substantial progress’ on Medicaid reform

A report released Jan. 26 concludes that Ohio has made “substantial progress” in its effort to make Medicaid more efficient and reduce operating errors.

Revisiting Medicaid Reform, published by the Center for Community Solutions, found that the state has moved forward on most of the 24 recommendations and 48 associated action steps developed by the Ohio Commission to Reform Medicaid in 2005. Of the remaining 18 action steps, half are in the process of being address or are under discussion, leaving nine steps on which little progress has been made, according to the report.

The research and analysis of Medicaid reform was conducted by the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy and Evaluation Studies at The Ohio State University College of Public Health.

According to Allard Dembe, HOPES Director and principal investigator for the project, the state has fully implemented one-third of the recommended action steps and partially implemented another 31 percent. “This level of activity and accomplishment reflects the considerable bi-partisan efforts directed towards Medicaid reform over the past several years,” Dembe said.