Despite higher-than-expected enrollment of Ohioans newly eligible for Medicaid, overall costs of the tax-funded health-insurance program in the most-recent fiscal year were nearly $2 billion below original estimates. According to a report released on Wednesday by Gov. John Kasich’s administration, total Medicaid spending was $23.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30; that was 7.6 percent less than projected.
Source: Ohio’s Medicaid costs $2 billion less than estimates | The Columbus Dispatch