SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A legislative committee tasked with determining if Medicaid health care facilities are seeing the dollars they should meets for the last time Tuesday.
Representative Jean Hunhoff says the panel needs to determine the need, and how to pay for it.
Hunhoff says the board will investigate if there are any regulatory changes that might help providers cut red tape and lower costs.
Hunhoff says any plan would be a significant sum and would include yearly added costs. She says the outlay would be between $12 and $14 million if you brought them up to the actual cost. She says the solution doesn't include discrectionary dollars because they're only one time.
Hunhoff says there are some revenue sources being talked about.
She says Medicaid expansion, it that were to go through, would provide some extra dollars that could potentially be used. She says there's also provider tax, but she admits that's not too popular.
Hunhoff anticipates several bills being marked up when they finish.