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   Mississippi hospital to sell, lease mental health unit due to underpayments   
      
      
   Written by Brooke Murphy | September 12, 2016   
      
   Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.) plans to sell or lease its mental health   
   services due to reduced Medicaid payments that the hospital claims are   
   insufficient to sustain operations, reports Mississippi Public Broadcasting.   
      
   Memorial CEO Gary Marchand told MPB Medicaid underpays the hospital about $10   
   million a year for mental health services. The state began reducing Medicaid   
   mental health payment rates in 2013, according to the article.   
      
   Mr. Marchand said Memorial will hire a consultant to oversee either the sale   
   or long-term lease of its mental health unit, according to MPB.   
      
      
      
   http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/mississippi-hospita   
   -to-sell-lease-mental-health-unit-due-to-underpayments.html   
      
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