“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.
https://twitter.com/SDNewsWatch/status/1073266565079027712
“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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