State eyes savings from Medicaid pharmacy benefit, which could hurt clinics that help the most vulnerable
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Each month, Peninsula Community Health Services’ mobile medical clinic traverses the Kitsap Peninsula. It makes stops in Poulsbo, Bremerton, Shelton and elsewhere, delivering primary care to people who face access barriers and may go without routine care.
PCHS is a Bremerton-based Federally Qualified Community Health Center serving residents in Kitsap, North Mason and rural Pierce County. It runs the clinic-on-wheels at a deficit. It is among a group of critical but unprofitable projects at the agency where costs are at least partially offset through an obscure Medicaid program called the pharmacy benefit.