After months of worry and intense lobbying, the State Department of Health Care Services has made public the fact that they will exempt facilities like the Southern Inyo Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility from their 10% reduction of payments. Southern Inyo Hospital officials had said early on that this reduction would close the nursing facility and […]
Not alone in the fight to defeat Med-Cal cuts that would seriously damage Lone Pine’s Skilled Nursing Facility, Southern Inyo Hospital Administrator Lee Barron says the California Hospital Association has made fighting the cuts their top priority. In an update on strategies to save the local Skilled Nursing Facility as well as Southern Inyo Hospital […]
On Friday, Southern Inyo Hospital Administrator Lee Barron reportedly headed to Sacramento to join other hospital officials to try to change Assembly Bill 97 which cuts Medi-Cal reimbursements. For Southern Inyo Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility, the bill would make a 46% cut, and Lone Pine officials say the cuts could lead to closure of the […]
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