G-A-P CARE Program details
G-A-P Care is a low-cost health care program for uninsured or underinsured working adults and their adult family members. The new program is a discounted fee for service program, not an insurance product. Here is how it works:
Services initially being offered include internal medicine (primary care), podiatry (ankle and foot care), dermatology (skin care), nephrology (hypertension care), and prescription drugs for diagnosed illnesses, if and when available.
Employers pay $25 a month per single employee; and $40 a month per employee family, which includes a spouse and any dependents between the ages of 18 and 24, living in the same household.
There is no limit on office visits, but each visit costs the patient $10.
Grace Place uses a sliding fee scale distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services for self-pay patients, which is based on total household income and the number of dependents in the household.
Grace Place's staff includes a full-time doctor, five part-time volunteer doctors, about 20 resident internal medicine doctors from Forum Health, and a support staff of four, including three medical assistants.
Source: Grace Place Medical Services
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