Maine Family Planning closing its primary care practice due to federal funding cuts

Maine (WABI) - A Maine clinic says it’s being forced to close its primary care practice due to a new federal law that bans many health providers who provide abortion care from billing Medicaid for reimbursement.

Maine Family Planning has announced it will end its primary care practice operations, which they offer in Ellsworth, Presque Isle, and Houlton, on October 31st.

Earlier this summer, Congress rescinded the clinic’s Medicaid funding through President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill.

Maine Family Planning says it was stripped of its roughly $2 million in annual Medicaid reimbursement.

Because their primary care practice was modeled to serve Medicaid patients, they say without Medicaid fund, they are no longer able to sustain its primary care practice.

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