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Last Updated: February 7, 2007, 05:27:57 AM PST

One of the treatments necessary to reduce the red ink at the Stanislaus County Health Services Agency is for the county to get higher federal reimbursement for patients seen at the county clinics.
County officials believe that can raise income by $3 million a year or more if the health system is designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center look-alike. Such a designation would increase the Medi-Cal and Medicare reimbursements that the clinics get; right now, the cost of treating most patients is higher than the reimbursement.

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