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Commissioners tighten indigent health eligibility, allow surgery centers to cut costs
Summary
The court voted to define indigent health-care eligibility to "legal citizens and permanent residents" effective immediately and separately approved using ambulatory surgery centers when they reduce county costs; staff will implement verification and notify affected cases.
Rockwall County Commissioners on April 14 voted to narrow the county's indigent health-care eligibility to legal citizens and permanent residents and to permit the use of ambulatory surgery centers when they produce cost savings compared with hospital care.
Commissioner Galana presented the proposal, saying surrounding counties use similar language and that Rockwall's existing policy was too vague. After…
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