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Action is First Step to Recover Overcharges from Pharmacy Benefit Managers
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today initiated the first step in an effort to recover overcharges to the State for the cost of prescription drugs negotiated by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), beginning the process to collect nearly $16 million on behalf of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.… Read full story
Save the date for the seventh annual Opening Day for Trails on Saturday, April 13 at the CA&C Depot at 501 S. Main Street, Mount Vernon. Come celebrate with the Knox County Park District the start of the spring trail season as members of the Heart of Ohio and the Kokosing Gap Trail Boards will host a fun-filled day for trail users.… Read full story
(Washington, D.C., February 15, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump’s signing of legislation that funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and declaration of a national emergency at the southern border:
… Read full story“I am pleased that Congress has passed, and President Trump has signed, funding for USDA for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2019.
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today announced that former Put-In-Bay mayor Bernard “Mack” McCann has pleaded guilty to two counts of Conflict of Interest in a Public Contract, misdemeanors of the first degree.
McCann, 82, agreed on Wednesday to step down from his position as mayor as part of the plea agreement.… Read full story
Brown: Any effort to take funding away from our military to support the President’s vanity project is reckless and irresponsible.
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today released the following statement on the bipartisan government funding deal reached in Congress, as well as recent reports that the President will declare a national emergency on the Southern border:
“Any effort to take funding away from our military to support the President’s vanity project is reckless and irresponsible.… Read full story
Feb. 15 – March 15, 2019
Ohio has posted for public comment a proposed PASSPORT Medicaid Waiver Amendment and Assisted Living Medicaid Renewal, which will be submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for review. A 30-day public comment period on the proposed PASSPORT Medicaid Waiver Amendment and Assisted Living Medicaid Renewal will run from February 15, 2019, through March 15, 2019.… Read full story
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that six employees of a Columbus nursing facility and a contracted certified nurse practitioner have been indicted on a total of 34 charges, including involuntary manslaughter. They are accused of neglecting two patients under their care.… Read full story
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2019 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is giving funding priority in a key grant program for applications to address opioid misuse in rural communities.… Read full story
Governor DeWine Recommends Additional Funding for Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s
Substance Use Recovery and Workplace Safety Program
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Thursday submitted to the General Assembly his recommendations for funding the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) and the Ohio Industrial Commission (OIC) for the upcoming 2020-2021 budget biennium.… Read full story