A network of medical clinics serving low -income residents in the main said on Wednesday that it is shutting down its primary care operations. Tusrap The administration cuts abortion providers.
President Donald Trump’s policy and tax bill, known as “Big Beautiful Bill”, blocked Medicaid Wealth Employed paternityThe country’s largest abortion provider. The parameters of the bill also stopped funding as the main family planning also stopped funding, a very small provider who also distributes other medical services in most rural state.
The network stated that the main family planning has informed about 1,000 primary care patients that it will no longer provide primary care service starting from 31 October. The disadvantage of medicid funding took about $ 2 million in reimbursement from the network and it is no longer able to maintain primary care, it said.
The main family planning said in a statement, “Network” will continue to look at patients who need family planning care until we are capable, regardless of the insurance status. “This group also provides birth control, sexually transmitted disease tests, cancer screening and regular obligin trips.
George Hill, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Main Family Planning said, “We were stuck in this net as we provide abortion care as part of a full range of sexual and reproductive health care at 18 sites. We are proud to provide that care.”
Hill said that out of 17,535 visits made in 2024 at 18 health centers and mobile medical units of Main Family Planning, 13% were for primary care services.
The main family planning fought in the Federal Court to stop the Medicade Dollar, but in August it suffered a setback when a federal judge ruled against the restoration of the funds against the Trump administration during the ongoing trial of the network. The network appealed to a High Court, but has not yet received a response. Hill said that the legal battle will continue.
Main Family Planning is one of the three health organizations across the country, which the federal government says that the tax and expenditure of President Donald Trump has been barred from receiving Medicade reimbursement by the end of September 2026 under a provision in the tax. This targets groups that provide abortion and receive more than $ 800,000 per year in Medicade reimbursement. Medicade did not already covered miscarriage.
Like the main family planning, the employed paternity has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to restore reimbursement. Federal court filing says that in health mandatory Massachusetts Is also affected.
The employed parent mortal has said that its 200 clinics may have to be discontinued due to policy change. A few of its about 600 clinics have already been closed. In the last week, its Wisconsin affiliated announced that she would stop providing miscarriage and Arizona adopted the opposite approach, stating that it would prevent medicated-funded services.
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Mulvihil reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.