Nearly 25 percent of Ohioans covered by Medicaid account for almost 75 percent of its cost. In 2001, the state spent nearly $18 million on just these 25 people. The list includes only the most expensive case for each condition. People are not identified for privacy reasons.
	Disease or disability	Cost
1	Two or more severe diseases or conditions	1,819,718
2	Immune system disease	1,338,294
3	A severe disease and one other disease	1,288,866
4	Two chronic diseases	1,252,720
5	Living on a ventilator	1,147,642
6	Fed entirely by tube.	938,368
7	Vegetative state	907,181
8	Breathing through a surgically placed tube	889,052
9	Hemophilia, blood clotting disorders	866,301
10	Heart failure with chronic pneumonia	784,483
11	Advanced Leukemia (lymphoid)	624,540
12	Advanced Leukemia (non-lymphoid)	543,205
13	Schizophrenia and one other disease	502,462
14	Low birth-weight, premature baby	498,234
15	Stroke and at least two other diseases	451,437
16	Major organ transplant	423,528
17	Partial to full paralysis from birth defects.	414,913
18	Leukemia (non-lymphoid)	402,087
19	Major lung disease	395,480
20	Lymphoma cancer (non Hodgkin's)	392,586
21	Stroke and one other disease	385,926
22	Muscular Dystrophy	373,230
23	Cerebral Palsy	365,644
24	Heart failure with weakened arteries, one other disease	336,195
25	Cancers effecting white blood cells	333,563
	Total:	17,675,655
	Source: Ohio Department of Job and Family Services

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