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Ron Peterson
http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/wsj/2007/06/03/0706040306.php
describes the plight of county nursing homes saying:
"Almost all of Badger Prairie's roughly 112 residents have federal
Medicaid insurance, which reimburses $130 a day per person compared
with an actual cost of $345, said Lynn Green, director of Dane County
Human Services. The average disparity between Medicaid reimbursement
and cost of care for all public and private Wisconsin nursing homes is
$29 a day per patient, according to Tom Moore, executive director of
Wisconsin Health Care Association."
describes the plight of county nursing homes saying:
"Almost all of Badger Prairie's roughly 112 residents have federal
Medicaid insurance, which reimburses $130 a day per person compared
with an actual cost of $345, said Lynn Green, director of Dane County
Human Services. The average disparity between Medicaid reimbursement
and cost of care for all public and private Wisconsin nursing homes is
$29 a day per patient, according to Tom Moore, executive director of
Wisconsin Health Care Association."
$159/day with difficult cases averaging as high as $345/day.From that, I gather that the average costs for nursing home care is