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Ohio cases of bad flu cases most since 2009
Illnesses associated with the flu sent more than 5,000 Ohioans to the hospital over the winter and into the spring — the highest number of flu-related hospitalizations in a season since the state began keeping records, the Ohio Department of Health reported. The tally was even higher than the 3,238 ...
Medicaid reforms net Ohio $169M
Beginning next month, Ohio’s Medicaid program will receive an additional $169 million in federal funds through the Affordable Care Act to help seniors and people with disabilities stay in their homes, state health officials announced Wednesday.Ohio is one of 16 states selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
Cincinnati Children’s ranks third best U.S. pediatric hospital
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ranks third best in the nation among pediatric hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-2014 list released Tuesday.U.S. News & World Report named 10 hospitals, including Cincinnati, to the Honor Roll of its annual ranking. The national news magazine evaluated hospitals on 10 specialities. ...
67K new businesses in Ohio could launch with health care law
Ohio could add as many as 67,000 new entrepreneurs as a result of the federal government subsidies made available to aspiring business owners through the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. The number of newly minted entrepreneurs in Ohio would rank fourth nationally behind ...
Costs to rise as state health insurance exchange plan kicks in
The insurers planning to sell individual policies to Ohioans next year on a new state health exchange could see the average cost to provide coverage rise as much as 88 percent, the state announced Thursday. Fourteen companies have submitted 214 different plans to sell health insurance to Ohioans on the ...
Health care premiums likely to rise for most Ohio businesses under ACA
The Ohio Department of Insurance said most companies statewide will likely see their health insuance rates increase as a result of the the Affordable Care Act, the question is by how much.State officials are still waiting for health insurers to file rate requests for the company-sponsored insurance plans they hope ...
Ohio projected to lose $53B if it rejects Medicaid expansion
Nearly a quarter of the estimated 1.5 million uninsured Ohioans live with mental illness and would benefit from expanding Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report Thursday from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Only two states — Nebraska and Minnesota — have a ...
Sequester cuts leave local health departments in limbo
The Ohio Department of Health Thursday told its partner agencies throughout the state to expect an average 8 percent cut in the federal grants for public health programs as a result of the federal government’s across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration.While cuts to individual programs may vary widely, ODH officials ...
Most don’t properly perform CPR, UC study finds
Your chances of surviving a heart attack are greatly enhanced if a bystander is willing and able to perform CPR, but most people — even those with training — do not perform CPR correctly, according to a new study by clinical researchers at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Researchers ...
Budget cuts limit cancer treatment options
Cancer clinics across southwest Ohio are struggling to provide drug therapies for many of their patients as a result of Medicare cuts in reimbursements for cancer drugs included in the government’s spending cuts known as sequestration. The 2 percent cut in drug reimbursements not only applies to the average cost ...
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