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fromTruthout
5 days ago

Health Centers Meant to Make Care Affordable Are Suing Patients for Unpaid Bills

She and her wife had a blended family of five kids that cost a lot to keep healthy. As a result, years ago, the couple had asked PrairieStar if they could set up an ongoing payment plan to automatically take money from their checking accounts multiple times a month. Voss-Barnes would later state in a court filing that PrairieStar never informed her those payments were not enough to cover her bills and keep her out of collections.
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fromFortune
1 month ago

'Is this kind of the first domino to fall?' Trump's Medicaid cuts shut down the only hospital for miles around in an elderly New England mountain town | Fortune

A rural New Hampshire community health center closed due to Medicaid funding cuts, forcing 1,400 mostly older patients to travel much farther for care.
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fromBoston.com
1 month ago

What to know about the impacts Medicaid cuts are having on rural health care

Medicaid cuts and funding changes are financially straining rural community health centers, prompting closures and threatening access to care for older, sicker populations.
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