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| 12/1/08 |
By mid-2008, we had achieved important milestones:
- We had included over 700,000 patients and 4 million encounters in our I-Care system.
- We were adding 12,000 encounters per week from over 60 hospital, clinic, and physician network locations.
- We had over 200 users of our ICare system.
- We had screened our first 100,000 uninsured patients for medical assistance programs.
- We were screening over 6,000 patients per month in over 30 clinical locations.
- We had found approximately 11% of central Texas uninsured patients to be eligible for medical assistance programs, had assisted almost 2,000 of them to become enrolled, and had generated over $2 million in new revenue to safety net providers.
- We had provided nearly 50,000 free medications to 5,000 patients using our prescription assistance program software.
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| Feb 7, 2007 |
HELP LINE FOR Katrina Evacuees
Katrina adults and children who need primary care, please call: 324-2447.
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| Feb 7, 2007 |
Hospital Emergency Department Use in Travis, Hays and Williamson Counties
In a continuing series of studies and analyses for the communities of Central Texas, the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC) recently updated a previous study of Emergency Department (ED) data of twelve area hospitals in Travis, Hays, and Williamson counties.
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| Aug 15, 2006 |
Playing the Health Insurance Gamble - Business owners, workers forgo expensive coverage
A growing number of small business owners and full-time workers make up about 80 percent of America's 46 million people without health insurance.
The number of people without such insurance increased 11.2 percent from 2001 to 2004.
Though California beats Texas in absolute numbers, the Lone Star state ranks No. 1 for the percentage of its population lacking health insurance, with one out of every four Texans living without coverage. That translates into 5 million people without insurance in Texas--an estimated 250,000 in Travis County alone.
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| Jan 11, 2006 |
January 2006 - SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Wednesday, January 11
Hospitals, clinics to aid uninsured. For people without health insurance, there's always the hospital emergency room--required by law to care for the acutely ill regardless of their ability to pay. And many of them seek care at many different emergency rooms when their symptoms worsen, repeating costly tests. (view the article)
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| Sep 23, 2005 |
May 2005 - Palm Beach County follows Austin's lead in providing health care for uninsured
AUSTIN, Texas -- Each morning at the Seton McCarthy Community Health Clinic, where nearly half the patients have no health insurance, customer representative Jennifer Rodriguez sits at a computer terminal and does a background screening on patients scheduled to visit that day.
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| Jul 25, 2005 |
Jan 2005 - Hospitals seeing more mentally ill
State caregivers blame Legislature's 2003 budget cuts as patients struggle to find help. Read the full article from the Austin American Statesman.
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| May 17, 2005 |
The ICC hits a major milestone in August
The Indigent Care Collaboration reached a milestone in its goal to improve access to affordable health care for residents of the region when it added its 1 millionth health care visit into its communitywide patient information system, its leader announced Friday, September 3rd.
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| 2001 |
In 2001 the ICC took on the task to organize and plan the annual dental sealant project. This program was initially started by a group of professional dentists and hygienists in 1998 before being managed by the ICC. The program provides free dental screenings, hygiene instructions and dental sealants to children from the Central Texas area. This one-day event usually takes place in the month of February and in conjunction with the American Dental Association's National Children's Dental Health Month. Throughout the years, the program has proven to be cost effective and very successful. (read more) |
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