State announces new Medicaid managed care contracts

The DeWine administration announced the winners of contracts to lead sweeping changes in the $20 billion Medicaid managed care system (Source: “Six companies will split $20B in managed-care work under biggest contract in Ohio history,” Columbus Dispatch, April 9).

In what was labeled as likely the largest pact in Ohio state government history, six companies are being hired to coordinate the federal-state health insurance for more than 3 million low-income or disabled Ohioans.

"What is really the revolutionary component here is that we have looked at all of the most cutting-edge practices, and we are pushing our system to the next generation," said Ohio Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran.

"The entire country is watching us because there are some really important things we are doing differently."