About 61,000 Ohioans poised to lose Medicaid health benefits

wkbn.com / ap ^ | 2-26-2015

[Citizen Zed]

Roughly 61,000 Ohioans in Medicaid are expected to lose their coverage this weekend after failing to take steps to renew their health benefits as required, the state’s Medicaid director said Thursday.

Those recipients who did not update their household income or other eligibility information as requested are poised to be terminated from the program Saturday.

Federal law requires states to “redetermine” annually whether recipients remain eligible for Medicaid. The federal-state program for the poor and disabled provides coverage to nearly one out of every four Ohioans.

The process was on hold in Ohio for a year as the federal health care law was implemented and the state moved to a new computer system. But Ohio recently restarted its checks. Renewal packets will now be mailed monthly to recipients who have been on the program for year.

“We have tried to streamline the process as much as possible,” Ohio Medicaid Director John McCarthy said Thursday as he provided an update to a state legislative panel.

It’s unclear how the number of people being dropped from Medicaid this month compares with previous months when recipients had to renew their benefits.

“That’s what we’re trying to figure out,” McCarthy told reporters after the hearing. He said the old system might not have measured it properly.

Also uncertain is whether most of those poised to be terminated from Medicaid are most likely still eligible and just failed to respond to their renewals.

“At this point, we don’t know,” McCarthy told reporters, saying it could be a “mixed bag.”

Democratic lawmakers have raised concerns about recipients having trouble with the paperwork and not getting renewal notices at their latest address.

McCarthy said the state has adjusted the forms and tried to increase awareness about the process. “There are definitely a few lessons learned,” he said.

[Citizen Zed]

Is there an enrollment period for Medicade?

[thesligoduffyflynns]

thanx for posting this but go back to source & you will understand this is a very poorly written article w/o the facts most likely written by a aspiring journalist not a fact finding reporter. too bad :(

it’s a nothing

[2ndDivisionVet]

So they’re too lazy or stupid to fill-out forms to keep riding the gravy train?

[thesligoduffyflynns]

No, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

Every 3,6 & 9 mos beneficiaries of most states

are up for review.

The author of this article is implying that anyone

up for review has not been processed during that/those

period of time.

61,000 people? that’s a lot to a layman who has no

grasp of the monstrous over-wheening governmental

system that the Obama Admin has created.

There’s a lot of in’s & out’s on this article & it’s

truly not clear what the author is trying to say

because very few facts are presented.

[DAC21]

“Those recipients who did not update their household income or other eligibility information as requested are poised to be terminated from the program Saturday”

Well then maybe they were never eligible and should be audited. Yeah right!

[DAC21]

“Democratic lawmakers have raised concerns about recipients having trouble with the paperwork and not getting renewal notices at their latest address”

Imagine that, another Democrat sticking up for those that can’t be bothered to stick up for there own personal responsibility. Nice little Nanny State Kucinich is putting together.

[Savage Beast]

Tell them to go to any U.S. hospital, claim to be illegal immigrants. It will help if they can fake a Mexican accent.

[hinckley buzzard]

Nice little Nanny State Kucinich is putting together.

?

Kucinich is not now and never has been governor of Ohio.

[randita]

I think they’re just listening to Scott Walker:

“We Celebrate Our Independence From Government, Not Our Dependence On It”

[iontheball]

This Ohio circumstance epitomizes what happens when government takes on something as basic as health-care. Rules, rules, and more rules are the order of the day. So much red tape that neither the government bureaucrat nor the citizen can make any sense out of it. It literally strangles everything like kudzu. The solution is obvious - get the government out of the lives of citizens. It really is very simple. Free up business from the blizzard of red tape to provide jobs for citizens to earn a living and be responsible for their own health care. When did ones health care become a government obligated benefit anyway? This country has evolved into the European socialist model and on the fast highway to destruction.