Local News | Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16 | Seattle Times Newspaper
Posted by GruntDoc on March 18th, 2010
Seattle, Washington:
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.
via Local News | Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16 | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Wow. Interesting timing.
Again, Medicaid should be funded (or abolished); the current system isn’t actually fair to anyone.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:23 am
Medicaid compensation rates are highly state dependent, so this is a little more parochial than Mayo announcing a cutoff
in accepting new medicare pts at branch clinics a few months ago. Arizona just shut down a big chunk of its childrens medicaid
affecting several hundred thousand kids for budgetary shortfalls of the whole state government. But these trends will
slowly progress as fiscal pressures increase over the next 10yrs. Pity what president #46 will have to deal with after
6yrs of $T fed budget deficits and Obamacare + Medicare beginning to detonate.