Sat. 8:20 pm: County officials to lobby in Columbus for more revenue
WARREN – Commissioners from Trumbull and Mahoning counties intend to go to Columbus this week to lobby state lawmakers for financial help to offset local losses caused by a change in the way Medicaid Managed Care Organizations are taxed.
The 2014 decision from the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that taxing MCOs through a statewide sales tax could be defined as a health care-related tax and not permissible under the Affordable Care Act is expected to cost Trumbull County $800,000 in general fund revenue after July 1.
And beginning in 2018, the move “would mean a loss of $2.7 million or 10.6 percent of sales tax revenues,” according to Trumbull County Commissioner Frank Fuda.
Read more in Sunday’s Tribune Chronicle.
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