Medicaid

President of the South Dakota Municipal League Steve Allender says members see an opportunity to better serve constituents.

Pam Cole is a Medicaid expansion advocate who worked with Dakotans for Health to get Medicaid expansion on the November 2022 ballot. She joins us to explain upcoming opportunities for voters to weigh in on Medicaid expansion in the state.

South Dakotans will vote on expanding Medicaid eligibility on the November ballot but might face a taller hurdle to approve it.

Two organizations are racing to place an expansion question on next year’s ballot.The poll reached out to 1,000 registered voters 50 and older.

The Pine Ridge Indian Health Services hospital has regained accreditation status and can now bill Medicare for services. The Great Plains Area Director…

The state public health lab is organizing mass COVID-19 testing in nursing homes over the next month—starting in communities with substantial spread of…

Six nursing homes in South Dakota closed over the last year and a half--including the Hudson Care and Rehab Center within the last month. The closures are…

Legislators approve a ten percent ongoing increase in Medicaid reimbursement in response to the statewide nursing home crisis. That equals nearly 18…

In The Moment ... February 28, 2019 Show 525 Hour 2The legislative session marches on, but no clear solutions yet for the state’s nursing home crisis. Low…

In order to spur development of other long-term care options, South Dakota placed a limit on the number of nursing home beds in the state in the 1980’s.…