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Medicaid is a critical safety net in Ohio, providing essential health coverage to millions of Ohioans—including low-income families, older adults, and people with disabilities. As a joint federal-state partnership, Medicaid helps ensure that Ohioans can access primary care, prescription medications, and long-term services, while stabilizing the state’s health care system by reducing uncompensated care costs.
From proposed work requirements to possible funding reductions, Ohio's Medicaid program could change drastically.
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A series of federal proposals—ranging from block grants and work requirements to rollbacks of Medicaid expansion and changes to drug pricing—pose serious questions about the stability of Medicaid. These proposals could fundamentally alter the availability and quality of care that so many low-income Ohioans depend on.
Medicaid is subject to the challenges faced in the larger health care system. These challenges are felt in increasing prices for pharmaceuticals, increasing costs of health coverage to cover the increasing costs of services, and ensuring adequate access to providers.
Medicaid expansion covers about 770,000 Ohioans, including about 362,000 in rural Ohio counties.
Read our state budget testimony on Medicaid and an explainer about trigger laws.
Resources
- Work requirement federal public comment period, closes April 7, 2025
- Recording Transcript
- PowerPoint Presentation
Meet the speaker
Brandy Davis is a Medicaid Policy Fellow, coordinating Community Solutions’ Medicaid policy and research work. She has worked for health systems in both Louisiana and Greater Cleveland. As a Health Justice Intern at the National Health Law Program, she conducted legal research on Post-Adarand and Civil Rights claims under the 5th Amendment and the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act to develop policy addressing health inequities. Brandy has a Bachelor of Arts from Xavier University of Louisiana, a Master of Public Health, Health Policy, and System Management from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and a law degree from Cleveland State University College of Law.
