Ohio Writes a Home-Care Fraud Crackdown Into Law

Ohio's legislature passed a crackdown on fraud in the state's Medicaid home-health program, and it now heads to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for signature. The Daily Wire reported that the bill cleared both the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, after its own investigation surfaced abuse in the program.

The votes crossed party lines on a shared sense that the program had gaps. Democratic Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney told Statehouse News Bureau she was 'generally bewildered by some of the shortcomings and gaps within Medicaid,' and Rep. Jennifer Gross, the Republican chair of the House Medicaid Committee, said the two chambers sent the governor a unified bill. Ohio becomes the latest state to answer a fraud story by rewriting the statute that governs care for its disabled and elderly residents.