Using a Voucher System to Extend Health Services to Migrant Farmworkers
Author: Slesinger, Doris P..
Date Published: 1996
Family Health/La Clinica de los Campesinos, Inc., is a federally funded migrant health clinic in the heart of Wisconsin's farmland that has offered outpatient health care since 1973 and an accompanying voucher program since 1988. The charges for outpatient care are based on the ability to pay. The clinic issues vouchers not only to migrant workers living and working in remote parts of the State, but also to patients needing services the clinic does not offer. The results of this program show how a health care provider in one location, with a patient population scattered throughout a sizeable geographic area, can coordinate services not offered at its facility. With the national spotlight on health care reform, the concept of voucher for people in outlying or underserved regions deserves further investigation.
Date Published: 1996
Family Health/La Clinica de los Campesinos, Inc., is a federally funded migrant health clinic in the heart of Wisconsin's farmland that has offered outpatient health care since 1973 and an accompanying voucher program since 1988. The charges for outpatient care are based on the ability to pay. The clinic issues vouchers not only to migrant workers living and working in remote parts of the State, but also to patients needing services the clinic does not offer. The results of this program show how a health care provider in one location, with a patient population scattered throughout a sizeable geographic area, can coordinate services not offered at its facility. With the national spotlight on health care reform, the concept of voucher for people in outlying or underserved regions deserves further investigation.
