Hospitals Divert Primary Care Patients to Health Center ‘Look-Alikes’ to Boost Finances

(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)

A growing number of hospitals are outsourcing often-unprofitable outpatient services for their poorest patients by setting up independent, nonprofit organizations to provide primary care.

Medicare and Medicaid pay these clinics, known as federally qualified health center look-alikes, significantly more than they would if the sites were owned by hospitals. Continue reading here…

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