Nevada Hospitals Threaten to Cut Care Due to Low Medicaid Rates

Nevada hospitals are going to unusual lengths to warn state lawmakers that low Medicaid payments could soon cause them to cut critical medical services.

One major hospital is tugging at heartstrings by saying infant care could be cut off.

Lack of full payment to hospitals for services to low-income people has the Nevada Hospital Association ready to fight when the state Legislature reconvenes in February. Payments for treating Medicaid patients fail to cover the hospitals’ full cost of providing services.

Medicaid rates in the state have remained largely stagnant since 2001. At the same time, Nevada hospitals are seeing a ...