Patrick Testin: “In the last several budgets that we have baked into the base…”

“The issues that we saw up in the Eau Claire area. Eau Claire area heavy on Medicaid. It's one of the primary reasons why In the last several budgets that we have baked into the base budget is our disproportionate share of Medicaid for our critical access hospitals. Now at the time I was critical of it, but in hindsight it makes a lot of sense and it's going to help ease that burden moving forward.” (15:27–15:35)

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