Medicaid funding returning to Ohio’s reproductive health clinics, impacts of yearlong freeze unknown

By: Susan Tebben

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: July 17, 2026

Words: 885

Last Updated: 3 days, 11 hours ago

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Now that a freeze on Medicaid funding specifically targeted at Planned Parenthood locations and clinics who provide abortion has expired, Ohio’s facilities are working to bring back services they couldn’t afford during the yearlong funding pause.

Though federal law already prohibits Medicaid dollars from being used for abortion services, clinics who also happen to provide those services were cut off from reimbursements for federal funds.

That means funding for sexually transmitted infection testing, cancer …

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