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Ohio: University Hospitals

June 1, 2009 - 01:24 pm
NEWS FEED: Columbus Dispatch

Editorial: Unhealthy treatment

They just call them fees instead of taxes. One of the most harmful is the proposed hospital franchise fee, which would cost Ohio's cash-strapped hospitals $127 million, $333 million or $411 million, depending on whose plan and estimates one adopts.

The basic arithmetic is this: The state would impose the fee on hospitals and apply the revenue generated to the state's share of Medicaid. That money, combined with similar assessments on other health-care providers, would draw about $2 billion in matching funds from the federal government for the state's Medicaid program.

In return, the governor proposed to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to hospitals so that they recoup some of the franchise fees they pay.

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March 5, 2009 - 01:02 pm
NEWS FEED: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Movers and shakers seated at the head table for Mayor Jackson's state of the city speech

By Mark Naymik

Mayor Frank Jackson seated a powerful bunch of Cleveland leaders at several head tables during his state of the city address at the City Club.

Among those seated at the front are: Toby Cosgrove, CEO of the Cleveland Clinic; Tom Zenty, CEO of University Hospitals; Mark Moran, CEO of MetroHealth; Ronn Richards, CEO of the Cleveland Foundaton; Barbara Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University; Al Ratner, co-chairman of the board of Forest City Enterprises; and Terry Egger, publisher of The Plain Dealer.

Other guests included Eugene Saunders, CEO of Cleveland schools and Jerry Sue Thorton, president of Tri-C.

Jackson, who faces his first reelection campaign, didn't appear to face any challengers at the City Club. Attorney Michael Nelson, who has expressed the most interest in challenging Jackson, wasn't seen in the crowd.

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February 27, 2009 - 11:49 am
NEWS FEED: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Obama's budget includes $475 million to clean up the Great Lakes

By Stephen Koff Plain

If the budget is adopted, the $475 million would be 10 times larger than any single chunk provided in the past, said Andy Buchsbaum of the National Wildlife Federation.

"Yeah, its big, and it's as real as a president can make it," said Buchsbaum, regional executive director of the federation's Great Lakes office. "It still has to go through Congress, but there's never been a presidential budget that commits this much money to the restoration of the Great Lakes."

Northeast Ohio medical institutions could benefit too, thanks to proposals to boost federal cancer research dollars, with at least some of the $6 billion nationally flowing to the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and other Ohio institutions, said Sen.

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