Carter Anderson, inspector general at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, will serve as the interim administrator at Montana State Hospital.
The loss in reimbursements will result in a reduction about $7 million annually, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services said Monday.
The Legislature's special counsel has given Montana's attorney general a Nov. 5 deadline to turn over information related to his office's investigation into a complaint over the way a COVID-19 patient was being treated at the hospital in Helena.