Ohio Hospital Association opposes Strickland budget
The Ohio Hospital Association is opposing Gov. Ted Strickland’s proposed state budget, calling it “unworkable.”
Hospitals “cannot support a state budget that will cost hospital employees their jobs, risk a reduction in vital services for patients and increase costs to Ohio employers,” according to a letter to Strickland from OHA President James Castle.
Legislators are debating Strickland’s $54 billion 2010-2011 budget proposal. It calls for more money to be collected from hospitals to cover the costs of collecting Medicaid funds from the federal government free online credit report.
Ohio hospitals would be assessed $598 million over the two-year period, according to the letter, but would receive only $187 million back – a $411 million loss.
One Greater Cincinnati hospital system, the Health Alliance, claims the measure would cost it nearly $10 million.
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