CTNJ: Analysis – Clinic plan could hit state budget, raise patient costs, increase barriers to access

By Ellen Andrews | December 4, 2018 | Comments Off on CTNJ: Analysis – Clinic plan could hit state budget, raise patient costs, increase barriers to access
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Last week the state Office of Health Strategy held a public hearing on a plan to transfer 28,500 mostly Medicaid patients, now served by three Yale-New Haven (YNHH) neighborhood primary care clinics, to a new site on Long Wharf owned by YNHH. But in a twist that could cost the state millions, those patients will technically become patients of New Haven’s two community health centers. Read more

 

Click here for the CT Health Policy Project’s testimony on the plan

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