A new plan to reimburse Mississippi hospitals for treating Medicaid patients would pump hundreds of thousands of extra dollars into local medical facilities– and would mean millions more for some hospitals. Figures that Governor Reeves’ office has released show that Baptist Medical Center-Attala would see a difference in net proceeds of more than $944,000. For Baptist Medical Center-Leake, it’s about $457,000. For the Holmes County Hospital and Clinics, there would be a difference of $661,000. For Neshoba County General Hospital, it would be more than $3.1 million.
The two payment initiatives that the governor announced Thursday are estimated to generate a total of almost $700 million annually in additional Medicaid funds for Mississippi hospitals, which would pay more in taxes.
Reeves’ Democratic challenger Brandon Presley is calling the governor’s plan a “political stunt”.
GT
September 22, 2023 at 4:52 PMTo bad it hasn’t been approved yet. Don’t count your $$ yet. That makes Presley is right. At this point it’s a campaign tactic.
Ellie
September 23, 2023 at 10:30 AMNot at all. Presley is wrong on this. Do some research. Expanding it today will economically destroy the state in a very short time. The Governor is on thin ice during a time that he can’t afford to be.
Nana
September 22, 2023 at 6:34 PMAll of this sounds good and you know what is said about sounding too good to be true! I don’t want anyone to go without medical help when it is truly needed because we have first handed received medical help before. However, Medicaid sounds like it needs to be reconstructed according to the severity of each individual case, not for having a headache all day and wait until after hours, call an ambulance because it hasn’t gone away and they have no transportation to the hospital! Needs new guidelines!!
Nana
September 22, 2023 at 6:35 PMAll of this sounds good and you know what is said about sounding too good to be true! I don’t want anyone to go without medical help when it is truly needed because we have first handed received medical help before. However, Medicaid sounds like it needs to be reconstructed according to the severity of each individual case, not for having a headache all day and wait until after hours, call an ambulance because it hasn’t gone away and they have no transportation to the hospital! Needs new guidelines!! They system is broken.