COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio officials dropped two managed care organizations Thursday that had been tentatively awarded new Medicaid contracts and picked two other plans after weeks of legal review and further examination over how each application was scored.

The decision came after five of six companies that lost bids for contracts filed formal protests with the state, claiming flawed and inaccurate scoring in the application process.

The eventual contract winners will provide health care services to more than 1.6 million poor and disabled people, or roughly two-thirds of the state's Medicaid population. The contracts provide billions in government work to the companies.

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