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Brian Schatz: “The Mississippi Department of Medicaid found that if this remote monitoring program were extended... the State would…”

On the recordMay 15, 2017
The Mississippi Department of Medicaid found that if this remote monitoring program were extended... the State would save $189 million per year.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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Citing potential cost savings from expanding telehealth services in Mississippi.

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