A few more goodies for certain states have surfaced in the 383-page Senate health care amendment (pdf) that was unveiled yesterday.

We’ve already told you about extra benefits for Louisiana, Hawaii, Nebraska, Vermont and Massachusetts.

The new measure, the so-called manager’s amendment, also includes favors obtained, mostly by Democratic senators, in Montana, Michigan, Connecticut, South Dakota and North Dakota and Republicans in Wyoming.

These things take a while to become public because they are written in convoluted legislative-ese, which rarely spells out the state or constituency that is receiving the advantage.

Some of these provisions would:

INCREASE THE WAGE INDEX under Medicare, which is adjusted geographically, for hospitals in Michigan and Connecticut, allowing them to receive more than they otherwise would.

INCREASE PHYSICIAN AND HOSPITAL PAYMENTS under Medicare in Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming (page 208, line 16).

EXTEND MEDICARE COVERAGE to those in Libby, Mont., a Superfund site, where hundreds of deaths and cases of asbestos-related disease over the years prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to declare a public health emergency in June (page 193, line 21). The area has the highest number of certain forms of asbestos-related illnesses in the nation.