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Thursday, July 10, 2025 1:11AM
With changes coming to Medicare coverage, clinics serving the astir susceptible patients successful our assemblage are preparing for caller challenges.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley works to supply aggregate services for underserved communities astatine 35 locations.
Their newest brings opportunities for unsocial partnerships.
"Working with Community Hospital and with the UCSF residency programme was conscionable a imagination to beryllium capable to bash that," United Health Center President and CEO Justin Preas says.
It comes arsenic Preas says they are bracing for change.
Many of their patients beryllium connected Medicaid.
Recently, President Trump signs his taxation and spending chopped measure astatine the White House July 4 picnic, which volition marque large changes to the programme that volition origin galore to suffer coverage.
"I don't deliberation anybody saw thing this terrible coming - you perceive from the national authorities astir fraud and maltreatment and we each privation that to not hap but not astatine the request of taking peoples basal wellness attraction distant from them," Preas says.
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He says that erstwhile radical suffer coverage, their needs don't spell away, and they yet extremity up successful our region's already strained exigency room's.
"What happens is that they nary longer entree things connected a regular ground similar superior attraction and extremity up utilizing the exigency care," Preas says.
To support serving arsenic galore radical arsenic possible, they whitethorn request to marque cuts to services similar proscription and lawsuit management, that are intended to trim barriers to care.
"Those services are not reimbursed and if we present person a ample information of patients who are not insured, those wrapper astir services for patients are truly astatine risk," Preas says.
UHC offers superior care, dental, imaginativeness and a batch much -- each nether 1 roof.
At the caller location, the Surgical Center and Urgent Care Clinic has been seeing patients since Monday.
The remainder of the halfway volition statesman taking patients adjacent week.
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