PROVIDENCE, RI– Lawyer Normal Peter F. Neronha is urging state management to extend RI Medicaid reimbursement after Windfall Neighborhood Well being Facilities introduced it should lay off 10 p.c of its workforce as a result of low reimbursement charges.
“Yesterday’s information about important layoffs at Windfall Neighborhood Well being Facilities is as alarming as it’s unsurprising. It’s fairly easy actually: our well being care system will proceed to break down except state management invests and raises Medicaid reimbursement charges to help the monetary wants of Rhode Island well being care practices. And to be clear, this newest hit to our well being care system couldn’t have been predicted by quarterly monetary stories.”
Windfall Neighborhood Well being Facilities (PCHC) is a non-profit Federally Certified Well being Heart that gives major well being care providers to greater than 80,000 residents in Windfall.
It’s one of many largest major well being care suppliers in Rhode Island, that deal with sufferers no matter their means to pay. Providers embody Household Observe, Grownup Drugs, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Behavioral Well being, Optometry, Dental Care and Specific Care.
PCHC is the most important of 9 well being middle organizations in Rhode Island that present care to almost 200,000 sufferers within the state.
“Windfall Neighborhood Well being Facilities is a well-respected, critically necessary group, and but, they’re struggling to outlive; the most recent sufferer on this state’s unwillingness to handle reimbursement charges. What’s infuriating is that we all know what the issue is, and we all know methods to repair it, however as an alternative we’re rolling out modest well being care grants and commissioning extra research. Rhode Islanders deserve high quality, inexpensive, and accessible well being care, and state management is failing to ship it.” Neronha mentioned in a press release Friday.
“I urge the Normal Meeting to help will increase within the state funds for Medicaid reimbursement. It’s not too late but. Nevertheless it nearly is,” he mentioned.
