State could move to pay for ‘treatment in place’ by adjusting Medicaid rules
A group of lawmakers voted Tuesday to back efforts to get ambulance services paid for helping low-income and elderly patients without taking them to a hospital.
The vote came during a meeting of the Legislature’s Emergency Medical Services Interim Committee at the Capitol in Pierre.
Ambulance services in South Dakota need to take patients to a hospital to get reimbursement for their work through Med…