The Mississippi Department of Health has requested a 4% increase in funding to launch new medical residency programs and a patient navigation program aimed at expanding health insurance coverage.
Health department’s budget request prioritizes training doctors, increasing health insurance coverage. New programs to train early-career doctors and help Mississippians enroll in health insurance are at the top of the state Department of Health’s budget wish list this year. The agency tasked with overseeing public health in the state is asking for $4.8 million in additional state funding, a 4% increase over last year’s budget appropriation.
The department hopes to use funding increases to start three new medical residency programs across the state. The programs will be located in south central Mississippi, Meridian and the Delta and focus on internal and family medicine, obstetric care and rural training. The Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, which the Legislature moved from UMMC to the State Department of Health last year, will oversee the programs. The office was created by the Legislature in 2012 and has assisted with the creation or supported 19 accredited graduate medical education programs in Mississippi, said health department spokesperson Greg Flynn. A $1 million dollar appropriation requested by the department will fund a patient navigation program to help people access health services in their communities and apply for health insurance coverage. People will access these services at community-based health departments, said Flynn. Patient navigators will help patients apply for coverage through Medicaid or the Health Insurance Marketplace, said Health Department Senior Deputy Kris Adcock at the Joint Legislative Budget Committee meeting on Sept. 26. “We want to increase the number of people who have access to health care coverage and therefore have access to health care,” she said. The Health Insurance Marketplace is a federally-operated service that helps people enroll in health insurance program
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