The South Dakota Health Care Solutions Coalition is meeting today. The Indian Health Service and Behavioral Health sub-committees are also holding meetings. The coalition was set up by Governor Dennis Daugaard to look at possible Medicaid expansion through cooperation with the Indian Health Service. Deb Fischer-Clemens of Avera Health is a member of the group, and says they are pretty focused…
Fischer-Clemens says they are exploring new ways of delivering health care on reservations…
Fischer-Clemens says the group has made a lot of progress since they came together…
Daugaard says he would like the group to give him a recommendation he can include in his budget address to the legislature in early December.