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One More County Plans To End Home Care

Published on Fri Oct 18, 2013

The La Crosse County Health Depart-ment in Wisconsin is considering phasing out its home health care services by mid-2014 to save $150,000 to $200,000 a year, reports the La Crosse Tribune newspaper. "The reimbursement from Med-icare and BadgerCare is too low to cover the costs," said Health Director Doug Mormann, according to the Tribune. "The county’s property tax has been [...]
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