Post by Logan on May 5, 2016 3:04:40 GMT -6
With the proposed state decrease in Medicaid reimbursements to providers and additional cost-sharing for recipients, about 31,000 Chaves County residents could be facing fewer options and more expensive health care, according to an industry expert.
“I think the ones who will feel the effect the most will be the patients themselves,” said Seferino Montano, chief executive officer of La Casa Family Health Center, the largest health care clinic providing non-emergency indigent care in Chaves County. “I think that they could find access to providers decrease because more providers will likely decide that they cannot afford to serve that population.”
Slightly more than 857,400 people, or about 41 percent of New Mexico’s population, received partial or full Medicaid funding in March 2016. That same month, 31,136 people in Chaves County were ruled eligible for at least some Medicaid coverage, state data indicates. That number represents about 47 percent of the total county population, which U.S. Census data estimates at 65,764.
The Chaves County Indigent Hospital and Health Care Fund expects to contribute $3.72 million in fiscal year 2016 for a variety of indigent needs: community preventive programs, inmate care and funds sent either to the state for disbursement or to approved providers that treat Medicaid recipients or the poor and uninsured who need emergency transportation, medical, dental and behavioral and mental health care.
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“I think the ones who will feel the effect the most will be the patients themselves,” said Seferino Montano, chief executive officer of La Casa Family Health Center, the largest health care clinic providing non-emergency indigent care in Chaves County. “I think that they could find access to providers decrease because more providers will likely decide that they cannot afford to serve that population.”
Slightly more than 857,400 people, or about 41 percent of New Mexico’s population, received partial or full Medicaid funding in March 2016. That same month, 31,136 people in Chaves County were ruled eligible for at least some Medicaid coverage, state data indicates. That number represents about 47 percent of the total county population, which U.S. Census data estimates at 65,764.
The Chaves County Indigent Hospital and Health Care Fund expects to contribute $3.72 million in fiscal year 2016 for a variety of indigent needs: community preventive programs, inmate care and funds sent either to the state for disbursement or to approved providers that treat Medicaid recipients or the poor and uninsured who need emergency transportation, medical, dental and behavioral and mental health care.
rdrnews.com/wordpress/blog/2016/05/04/medicaid-changes-could-affect-30000-residents/