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Following the budget signing, Governor Kasich has issued executive orders
authorizing the Department of Job and Family Services to establish rules. First
among the orders is to have ODJFS revise rules that require the 5% inpatient
hospital rate increase to continue through June 30, 2013. The rate increase put
in place in October 2009 was set to expire June 30, 2011. Another order allows
the agency to implement cost-saving measures established in the budget that
lower the income level for initial eligibility for child care benefits to meet
the 2011 federal poverty levels. Also signed was an order for ODJFS to reduce
the reimbursement rates for services through PASSPORT, Choices and assisted
living waiver programs and to modify reimbursements to providers serving more
than one consumer at the same time - it would additionally allow for ODJFS to
pay PACE providers.
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