Health Advantage Growth

In March of 2001, HHC was awarded a federal grant to build upon existing Health Advantage programming to further the unmet needs of the uninsured of Marion County in the following ways:

• Establish a Pharmacy Assistance Program (PAP) to reduce pharmacy costs at the clinic level and increase the availability of free pharmaceuticals for indigent patients throughout the county at all expanded sites.
  
  
• Create a Case Management Program to improve the health status of patients with very high utilization needs.
  
  
• Implement a countywide Sliding Fee Scale System to help achieve uniform co-payment processes.
  
  
• Develop a countywide electronic application and eligibility determination system that will streamline the entitlement program (i.e. Health Advantage and Medicaid) application process and increase patient enrollment into appropriate programming.