Federal Issues

While OCHA primarily focuses on children’s health care in Ohio, there are many issues that affect Ohio’s children at the Federal level as well, such as:

• Increased Medicaid reimbursement for pediatric specialist care (which is currently at approximately 40 percent of Medicare specialist reimbursement rates)
• Increased Medicaid enrollment to cover low income children and children with special health care needs
• Addressing regional and state-based variations in quality and access to care for children
• Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education funding
• Evidenced-based improvement in the quality of care for children
• Prescription drug pricing
• Community benefit reporting by Children’s hospitals
• Funding for pediatric research
• Children’s health and safety promotion and education

OCHA works to support these and other important issues and advocate for solutions to national health care challenges.