COLUMBUS, Ohio — A provision in the new state operating budget that would eliminate Ohio’s Medicaid expansion group may not see the light of day, based on the federal budget just passed by Congress.
But even with the expansion group surviving budget talks, impacts to Medicaid in Ohio are still on the horizon from the budget reconciliation bill, according to analysts and advocates.
The state operating budget was passed at the end of June and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine on June 30. The budget included a provision that DeWine himself had written into his executive budget proposal, and which survived a Senate and House vote, along with joint conference committee debate in the Statehouse…