Ohio lawmakers threaten subpoena if they don’t get answers on Medicaid spending report – By Catherine Candisky (The Columbus Dispatch) / Aug 3 2020
Outraged that they have been misled about spending in Medicaid’s $3 billion prescription drug program, Ohio lawmakers say they will subpoena the administration if needed for undisclosed data from a tax-funded analysis.
The chairman of the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee said he first will call Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran to testify before the legislative panel to explain earlier unreleased versions of the long-awaited study by a Columbus consultant received last fall by lawmakers, who have tried for years to implement reforms.
“There was always a concern about a delay in [release of the] report, that somehow the data was being massaged. The document we received was Medicaid’s rendition of a report we did not have access to. It makes it very hard to oversee the program,” said Sen. Dave Burke, a Marysville Republican and JMOC chairman.
“I don’t know what else to do at this point other than have a [hearing] on the issue and potentially solicit the Senate president and speaker of the House for my authority as JMOC chairman to issue a subpoena.”
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