Ohio Medicaid officials misled public on drug spending study
As Ohio struggled to escape the grip of pharmacy benefit managers that were reaping close to a quarter-billion dollars a year from the state’s Medicaid program, an assessment by a Columbus consultant of newly implemented reforms was eagerly awaited last summer.
But several times in the months after the study was due, the Ohio Department of Medicaid’s top spokesman denied it had been submitted. He also said repeatedly that there were no earlier versions of the study to view.
