two U.S. senators and seven of nine U.S. House members are urging federal officials to extend for another year federal Medicaid funding to the state for hospitals who treat a "disproportionate share" of indigent patients unable to pay their bills.
Delegation Pushes For Medicaid Funding Extension
Local News | KNS, Knoxville News Sentinel
Sun, 12/21/2014 - 3:55pm
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