Sioux Valley Hospital Ass'n v. Davison County

DUNN, Justice (on reassignment).

This consolidated appeal concerns the rights of hospitals to recover from a county for medical care furnished to indigent residents of the county under the statutory scheme set out in SDCL ch. 28-13. Sioux Valley Hospital (Hospital) filed a claim for reimbursement by Davison County (County) for the alleged actual costs (hereinafter referred to as true costs) for hospitalization of three infants, less credit for the first thirty days’ costs covered by Title XIX. After the county commissioners had in both cases rejected Hospital’s claim for reimbursement,…