Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.
The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients.
In a news release, Walgreens said its decision to not take new Medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's Medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to Medicaid patents.
Walgreens follows Bartell Drugs, which stopped taking new Medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in Washington, though it still fills Medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.
Tricare is the same way - a lot of doctors simply won't accept new Tricare patients because the Government doesn't reimburse the doctors. The only reason the health care system in this country stays afloat is due to the private insurance and private citizens who pay into the system. If the government gets it's claws into healthcare, you can expect the entire thing to come grinding to a halt. And then where will all those rich and famous people go to get health care? Hell, where will YOU go to get health care, because I guarantee that most of us don't have the money to go jet-setting to a private, cash-only hospital in India or the Grand Caymans.
Found at KisP.
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