Delayed Medicaid payments hurting Knox County Nursing Home

KNOXVILLE — For about two years the Knox County Nursing Home’s payment from the state for Medicaid patients has been delayed anywhere from six months to as long two years, according to county officials.
Nursing Home Administrator Rachel Secrist said after the state consolidated 65 counties’ Medicaid caseworkers into one office in Macon County two years ago, residents who wish to …
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