Hawaii Residents Increasingly Seeking Care At Strained Community Health Centers

Hawaii also lacking enough physicians...community health centers at risk of losing Medicare and Medicaid funding by seeing private care patients...BD

Insured patients: Insured patients who cannot find physicians on the Big Island increasingly are seeking care at community health centers, which can reduce federal Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the facilities, according to Hamakua Health Center Medical Director Brian Williams, the Star-Bulletin reports. Williams said that although they accept all patients, "the more insured patients we have, the lower our reimbursements for our target population.

Hawaii Residents Increasingly Seeking Care At Strained Community Health Centers