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March 13, 2017

$89 million Medicaid deficit effecting state’s hospitals

Mississippi has an $89 million Medicaid problem, and hospitals could pay Medicaid is one of Baptist-DeSoto’s biggest insurers, covering more than 10 percent of its patients. And right now the state agency is at a crisis point, facing a near record-breaking $89 million budget deficit. So far this session, lawmakers have committed only to fulfilling…