Shoring up the multi-million dollar hole in Medicaid’s budget hinges on reaching a compromise with hospitals on how they will contribute, Senate Public Health and Welfare Chairman Hob Bryan told his colleagues Thursday.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 655, approved overwhelmingly by the body, could be the beginning of an agreement on how to fund the subsidized health-care program that serves more than 500,000 Mississippians.
Details of the plan have not been released, but Bryan said if a new bill is drafted, it could include collecting a tax of about $100 per occupied non-Medicare bed in each hospital in the state.
The resolution could face hurdles across the hall, though, where it still has to go through the House Rules Committee and the full chamber before legislation can be introduced.
Magnolia Tribune
