At the Portland Community Health Center, patients pack into a small waiting room to see harried doctors and nurses for primary care services such as vaccines, checkups and to acquire antibiotics for infections.
Increasingly, the patients do not have MaineCare – the state’s name for Medicaid – and are instead uninsured, leaving the health center facing a financial crunch that if not addressed would threaten the clinic’s existence.
That’s because the dollars-and-cents difference for the clinic between seeing a MaineCare patient or an uninsured patient is dramatic.
Story Date:
February 8, 2015
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