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Emergency Triage, Treat & Transport (ET3) Model

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Fact sheet released Feb 14, 2019. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (Innovation Center) Emergency Triage, Treat, and...

March Webinars

SDAHO is pleased to offer 4 new webinars in March for both acute and post-acute members. We will continue to post new educational opportunities...

Annual Post-Acute, Partners in Care, Conference – Early Bird Deadline is March 1st!

Register today for the early bird pricing ​of $175 (members) & $225 (non-members) which expires on March 1st!  The conference this year will focus...

House Health and Human Services Committee

House Health & Human Services Committee met for two days this week. February 12, the committee heard five bills. HB 1179 revise certain provisions regarding victims...

Senate Health and Human Services:

The Senate Health & Human Services Committee met for one day this week, scheduled Feb 13, to hear 3 bills. February 13, the committee will...

Indian Health Service Continues to Let Down Tribal Members

By U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) Feb. 15, 2019 Tribal members have been in the midst of a government-induced health care crisis for decades due...

SNF Provider Preview Reports – Now Available

Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. Providers have until March 4, 2019 to review their performance data prior to the...

Department of Social Services Budget Hearing to Joint Committee on Appropriations

The Department of Social Services is almost 60% federal funds, 40% general funds and exceeds $1.0Billion dollars in total. The largest portion of the...

Joint Committee on Appropriations

The Joint Committee on Appropriations (JCA) has wrapped up their budget hearings during week six. The committee listened to Department of Social Services...

Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model application webinar

Live webinar on Thursday 2/21 for state Medicaid agencies and potential care-delivery partners to review the MOM model Notice of Funding Opportunity and Grants.gov application process....

DSS RFI for State Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Interventions

The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) Division of Behavioral Health (DBH) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to solicit information regarding...

CMS prepping to roll back nursing home arbitration ban

Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is getting ready to issue their final rule to repeal the previous administration's rule banning arbitration between nursing homes and their...

Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to release NOFO for a new RCORP initiative

The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) is a multi-year initiative by Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy aimed at...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Center released a Notice of Funding

Feb 8, 2019, the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) Innovation Center released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model....

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Interoperability & Patient Access Proposed Rules.

On February 11, 2019, CMS issued a proposed rule supporting its MyHealthEData initiative to improve patient access and advance electronic data exchange and care...

Trump’s HIV Pledge

POLITICO's Dan Diamond, Adam Cancryn and Brianna Ehley report.​ THE MINEFIELD AHEAD FOR TRUMP's HIV PLEDGE — The president's State of the Union pledge to...

Senate Health & Human Services Committee Action

The Senate Health & Human Services Committee met for one day this week, scheduled Feb 8, to hear 3 bills. Feb 8, the committee will...

House Health & Human Services Committee Action

House Health & Human Services Committee met for two days this week. Feb 5, the committee heard three bills. HB 1099     provide for the designation of a...

Trump’s health policies will provide $45B in annual benefit, White House economists claim

PoliticoPro: Adam Cancryn and Dan Diamond The Trump administration's health care policies — including the elimination of Obamacare's individual mandate penalty and new rules...

Department of Health Budget

Department of Health Budget Hearing to Joint Committee on Appropriations The South Dakota Department of Health (DOH) presented its budget hearing to the JCA on...

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