Department of Health Services Breaks Down Impact of Expanded Medicaid Funds for Clark County
Monday, May 6th, 2019 -- 10:46 AM
-The Department of Health Services has broken down the proposed impact that accepting federal Medicaid funds would mean for Wisconsin.According to a release from the Department of Health Services, accepting federal Medicaid funds would mean $10 million in new investments for Clark County. Broken down, the release states that $3.3 million would go to expanding Medicaid to an estimated 418 Clark County residents; $252,000 would go to expanding access to behavioral health, including crisis intervention and telehealth services; $96,000 would go to preventing childhood lead poisoning through lead abatement and supporting children with lead poisoning through the Birth to 3 Program; $229,000 would go to improving access to dental services by increasing payments to dental providers, including those who serve people with disabilities, and expanding the Seal-A-Smile program; $471,000 would go to enhancing Medicaid benefits and services, including support for the new community health benefit and postpartum coverage for new mothers; $346,000 would go to increasing funding for physicians; and $49,000 would go to increasing hospital funding.
Also, $487,000 would go to increasing funding for providers in long-term care programs and services, including Family Care IRIS, and nursing homes, and boosting personal care worker wages; $188,000 would go to increasing access to dementia care specialists; $4.6 million would go to increasing funding for current Medicaid, BadgerCare Plus, SeniorCare, and FoodShare Employment and Training program members, and permanently ending the waitlist to serve all eligible children in the Children’s Long-Term Support Waiver Program; and $31,000 would go to supporting the Mental Health Consultation program, conditional and supervised release, and the Dispatcher Assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation program. According to the release, our neighboring counties would see $31 million of new investments for Chippewa County, $46 million of new investments for Eau Claire County, $37 million in new investments for Wood County, $48 million of new investments for Marathon County and $6 million of new investments for Taylor County.
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