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Hospitals urge continued supplemental funding for private psychiatric beds and sustained Medicaid rate increases
Summary
Hospital leaders and Ascension Via Christi asked the committee to continue and expand supplemental payments that support private inpatient behavioral-health beds and to sustain recent Medicaid rate increases to keep rural and specialty beds open.
Hospital leaders, behavioral-health providers and Ascension Via Christi asked the Committee on Social Services Budget to continue supplemental funding for inpatient psychiatric beds and to sustain recent Medicaid rate increases to prevent further bed closures and to mitigate operating losses for behavioral-health services.
Jennifer Goring, chief nursing officer at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph in Wichita, told the committee her hospital accounts for about 30 percent of the state's public inpatient behavioral-health beds outside the…
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