“It really is a crisis.” Just like @billiehsutton has always said: Medicaid expansion is a life or death isssue. As the article points out, reimbursement rates also disproportionately affect rural areas. We must #expandmedicaid in SD.
“Deak and other experts say the primary cause of nursing home failures in South Dakota and across the United States is insufficient Medicaid payments to nursing facilities.”
“According to a recent study commissioned by the American Health Care Association in which 28 states supplied data, South Dakota had the lowest Medicaid reimbursement rate at just $131 per day. With the cost to house a patient estimated at $163...”
”...in South Dakota, nursing homes are losing $32 per day, per Medicaid patient, a total loss of about $39 million a year statewide.”
Thank you @SDNewsWatch for this important journalism. Again: “This really is a crisis.”
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