Long Island Health Care Providers Concerned About Possible Medicaid Cuts
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Health care providers on Long Island are preparing for financial challenges amid potential cuts to Medicaid funding, which would affect about 680,000 residents in Nassau and Suffolk counties. “Our most important focus is what it means for the patients who are the working poor. There are plenty of working poor in Long Island,” said Dr. Jerome Cohen, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York. Cohen also noted the effects on practices, saying that “physician offices that do take Medicaid are very much on the edge” and that cuts “would be absolutely devastating because they are so close on the margin of staying in business.”
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