Ohio's Medicaid Program: Problems Identified Can Have National Importance
HRD-78-98A
Published: Oct 23, 1978. Publicly Released: Oct 23, 1978.
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A comprehensive review of Ohio's Medicaid program identified two issues that may have national importance: (1) the misleading statistics reported by the Medicaid quality control program which overstate potential savings available from eliminating eligibility determination errors; and (2) the unavailability of skilled nursing services to medicaid patients which results in unnecessary hospital expenditures.
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Cost controlEligibility criteriaHealth care costsNursing homesPaymentsProgram managementQuality controlStatistical dataMedicaidData errors