CMS Awards $7.2 Million for South Dakota Ambulance Telemedicine
CMS announced $7.2 million in federal funding to expand ambulance-based telemedicine and upgrade emergency communications infrastructure across South Dakota. The funding will support rural emergency medical services, including equipment for real-time video consultation between ambulance crews and physicians during transport. South Dakota officials and providers will implement the upgrades, which aim to improve emergency care access in rural and underserved areas of the state. The announcement did not specify an implementation timeline or the funding mechanism involved.
State Medicaid agencies and rural providers in South Dakota should track how this funding may support emergency care infrastructure that affects Medicaid beneficiaries' access to timely care in underserved areas.
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