Hospitals and other health care providers have been adjusting to changes under the federal Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

Doug Ekeran, President of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton says while they continue to deal with those changes, a bigger issue is with Medicaid…

 

Ekeren says they continue to push state lawmakers to take up the expansion issue…

 

Governor Dennis Daugaard and legislative leaders have resisted the push to expand Medicaid because of the state costs associated with it.

Ekeren says they have found under the Affordable Care Act, they are seeing more people with some form of insurance coverage…

 

Ekeren says adjusting services to payments is a continuing challenge.