| Thursday, 10 March 2011 10:05 |
| South Dakota lawmakers have received more information about how cuts will be made to hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities that provide medical services to low-income people in the Medicaid program. Gov. Dennis Daugaard earlier had proposed a 10 percent cut in reimbursements to Medicaid providers. With the governor's agreement, the Legislature earlier this week approved a bill using $12 million in one-time money to reduce the size of the cut to about 6 percent overall. State officials on Thursday explained details of how nursing homes and some other facilities that depend most heavily on Medicaid will get the smallest cuts, while hospitals and some other kinds of operations get larger cuts. The comments were made as a legislative committee worked to finish the state budget. AP |

