Reauthorization of Existing Public Health Service ACT Programs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Committee on ... Congress, Second Session; August 1, 1996 - Softcover

Environment, Subcommittee On Health And

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ISBN 10: 1334567786 ISBN 13: 9781334567780

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Reauthorization of Existing Public Health Service Act Programs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session; August 1, 1996

Mr. Bilirakis. So that Medicaid is not really all that much help in those neighborhoods, is it, in that sense?

Mr. Lee. Onl in that if the community health center is there, it will pay for t e care of the Medicaid-eligible person. In addition, they have to be part of a system within their community; they have to relate, as many of them do, to the hospitals and, as you point out, to the long-term care institutions.

But I still think we need some broader mechanism on the financ ing side even with the centers program bein a very important de livery system mechanism. Some people t k about mainstream medical care; to me, the community health centers are absolutely mainstream care of very high quality, and we have seen significant savings when a patient goes to a community health center versus going to an emergency room. He is less likely to be put in the hos pital, more likely to be able to be treated in an ambulatory setting, with very significant savings. But the health center does not bene fit from that; the hospital does not incur the cost, but they do not transfer those savings to the community health centers.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1334567786
• ISBN 13: 9781334567780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62