New Technical Issues Cropping Up With Health Care Exchanges

While the South Dakota legislature is dealing with issues around the possible expansion of Medicaid coverage, state agencies are dealing with technical issues.  Governor Dennis Daugaard says the federal healthcare exchange is supposed to screen applicants for possible Medicaid enrollment. Using himself as an example, he says the files they are getting back from the federal government are inaccurate…

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Daugaard says once a person is entered inaccurately in the exchange system, it’s difficult to make corrections…

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Daugaard says they have also been running tests on accepting electronic files from the Health and Human Services Department…

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