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The District's experience with EMS is instructional. They had to settle, at sizable cost, with the State on Medicaid fraud charges and were refused payment by various insurance companies.
Nursing home reimbursement is incredibly meager. Very few can afford a nursing home stay or have long-term care insurance. Medicare doesn't cover much, leaving Medicaid with very low payment levels once you are destitute. It is nearly an impossible business from an economic perspective, even at scale. Our very small population makes running such a business impossible, with low-wage employees and paying patients scarce.
The acquisition and operation of a nursing home is an unsound decision. "Islands Convalescent Center" closed because they could not make a go of it for the above-mentioned reasons. The owner,
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