MaineHealth - CarePartners

CarePartners gives eligible adults access to a volunteer network of primary care and specialty providers as well as care management, low-cost medications and other needed services like transportation and behavioral health care. CarePartners helps enrollees transition to public and private insurance as appropriate, promotes enrollment in Maineâ€™s Health Insurance Marketplace and provides health insurance education and outreach.

What is it?

CarePartners gives eligible adults access to a volunteer network of primary care and specialty providers as well as care management, low-cost medications and other needed services like transportation and behavioral health care. CarePartners helps enrollees transition to public and private insurance as appropriate, promotes enrollment in Maine’s Health Insurance Marketplace and provides health insurance education and outreach.

Who is it for?

Low-income and uninsured adult residents in a seven-county service area

Why do they do it?

CarePartners is aimed at patients who are just above the Medicaid eligibility guidelines but are too poor to afford private insurance. Too often, the only option for these individuals is hospital charity care.

Impact

Since 2001, CarePartners has enrolled 10,544 individuals and donated $80 million in medical services, assisted enrollees in obtaining 71,758 prescriptions valued at more than $41 million, transitioned more than 4,090 enrollees to public and private insurance, and assisted an additional 7,140 individuals with Medicaid applications.

Contact: Carol Zechman, L.C.S.W.
Director, Access to Care Programs, MaineHealth
Telephone: 207-662-7960
Email: zechmc@mainehealth.org

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