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Gary Connell’s senior assisted living center in Nampa will soon have a choice to consider: Should it stop accepting residents on Medicaid?
At Table Rock Senior Living at Park Place, the finances were already on thin ice. Most of its residents rely on the low-cost insurance subsidized by the federal and state governments. But Idaho often pays Table Rock less than half the amount it costs to provide those residents care, Connell told the Idaho Statesman. The state Department of Health and Welfare now plans to cut its reimbursement rates even further starting in September…