South Dakota news and information

MINNEAPOLIS—Sanford Health, a South Dakota health system on an acquisition streak, called off merger talks with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services after the deal met resistance from Minnesota officials. Sanford CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft said in a statement that the health system...
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Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, has entered into merger talks with Sanford Health, a rapidly expanding South Dakota health system.
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Avera Health opened an e-care hub last fall in Sioux Falls as a step toward shrinking the gaps in rural medicine in South Dakota and across the Northern Plains.The intent is to use electronic services to help rural patients stay closer to home and to boost small-town economies, but officials say it...
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Physicians and other healthcare providers should be allowed to deliver services to patients enrolled in any insurance plans in South Dakota, if the providers are willing to meet the plans' terms and conditions, a legislative panel decided.
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The furious pace of oil exploration that has made North Dakota one of the healthiest economies in the country has had the opposite effect on the region's healthcare providers.
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The Avera Health system will acquire two South Dakota hospitals and four long-term-care centers from Catholic Health Initiatives in a deal announced this week.
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Now that President Barack Obama's re-election has cleared the way for the full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, doctors and hospitals in South Dakota are urging the state to expand its Medicaid program so thousands of additional low-income residents can receive...
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Medicare and Medicaid will certainly have a place in federal lawmakers' pending deficit-reduction talks, and HHS agencies should prepare to see their funding levels cut as a result of those negotiations, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) told healthcare providers Thursday in...
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CHICAGO—Sinai Health System CEO Alan Channing has a preliminary agreement to combine his historic hospital with Holy Cross Hospital, creating a safety net giant with estimated annual revenue of more than $525 million. The deal is an unlikely union, reached after Cardinal Francis George...
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South Dakota will not set up its own health insurance exchange, instead deferring to the federal government to operate and pay for a key component required by the federal healthcare overhaul, Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Wednesday.
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