Montana’s Medicaid redetermination process in the wake of the pandemic has left more than 150 residents at 18 nursing homes without coverage. As a result, delayed reimbursement payments have left those nursing homes short $2.3 million so far, according to the Montana Health Care Association.
Terry Minow writes, Due to this loss of eligibility, Montana stands to lose millions of federal health care dollars that support our rural hospitals, local pharmacies, nursing homes and treatment centers.
Terry Minow writes, In recent years, NorthWestern has been aggressively trying to get out from under the financial burden of their remaining coal plants in eastern Montana. Their latest effort is to get the cost of these old, expensive plants rolled into consumers’ electric bills.