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For Rural OHSU Clinic, a Vision to Boost Revenue Leaves Clinicians Uneasy
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Willamette Week
In what may be an effort to draw more revenue from a service not known for profitability, Oregon Health & Science University says it is considering whether to seek Federally Qualified Health Center status for its Scappoose family health clinic.
“OHSU is fully committed to continuing to provide full-scope reproductive health care in Columbia County,” it said.
Those most common at the Scappoose clinic are pap smears, pelvic exams and family planning consultations, OHSU says.
OHSU says that, were the clinic to become an FQHC, all such services would be able to continue without restrictions on funding.
FQHC cannot use federal funds to provide abortion services, OHSU acknowledges, but it says that there are alternative ways to deliver the services, since the clinic is part of the larger OHSU network.