About 90 percent of people on Medicaid are enrolled into a managed-care program. A proposal floating around in the Ohio Legislature .
But Ohio鈥檚 nursing homes and assisted-living communities are fighting back.
Peter Van Runkle is with the , which represents nearly a thousand nursing home and assisted-living facilities. He says there鈥檚 no proof that managed care provides better service for people living with long-term health issues. And he says the switch is an obvious benefit for health insurance companies.
鈥淥f course it鈥檚 more business. I mean they鈥檙e looking at a billion dollars or more of additional revenue,鈥� he said.
Van Runkle says there鈥檚 already a test run happening in the state called , a pilot program he says isn鈥檛 working. But the , which lobbies for the health insurance industry, says managed care increases accountability, and that it鈥檚 proven to work in other states.
The proposal was taken out of the House budget bill before it was sent to the Senate.
