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SD Legislative Committee Looking for Input on Medicaid Payments

SD Legislative Committee Looking for Input on Medicaid Payments

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One of the summer study committees of the South Dakota Legislature will hold a two day meeting next month as they expand the scope of their study.
The “Payment Methodologies for Medicaid Providers Study” is supposed to help legislators understand how health care providers are paid to take care of Medicaid patients.
Committee Chair, Representative Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says she wants providers to use a website to help provide information to them………

Hunhoff says they will also look at how programs run in other states…..

Hunhoff says Medicaid makes payments differently to each type of provider…..
The committee will meet August 17th.

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