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Medical care access for asylum seekers
1:38:44
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Dr. Mitchell Katz explains how asylum seekers access medical care through the NYC Care program and H+H facilities. Council Member Gale A. Brewer inquires about the process and Medicaid eligibility.
- Many asylum seekers are enrolled in NYC Care through community-based organizations.
- H+H matches patients with facilities based on geography and tries to distribute the patient load.
- Bellevue and Metropolitan hospitals have seen the highest numbers of asylum seekers.
- Asylum seekers are not eligible for Medicaid, especially after the recent bill passed in Congress.
Gale A. Brewer
1:38:44
Where do asylum seekers, because there are some at Herx now, but also in general, seek medical care?
1:38:50
Do they use the have many of them have New York Care, obviously.
Mitchell Katz
1:38:54
Right.
1:38:54
So, I mean, the way that it works best is, oh, they're closing this summer.
Gale A. Brewer
1:39:01
This summer?
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1:39:02
Yeah.
1:39:02
Okay.
Mitchell Katz
1:39:03
So many of the CBOs that take care of people from different countries are very good about getting them NYC care.
1:39:15
And then they work with them to get them a first appointment.
1:39:20
And that will usually be about where they are geographically.
1:39:25
We'll try to match the geography and we'll try to spread the load.
1:39:29
But certainly in general the highest number have been at Bellevue and Metropolitan.
Gale A. Brewer
1:39:33
Okay.
1:39:33
They're not going to get Medicaid, right?
1:39:35
Or they are?
Mitchell Katz
1:39:35
They're not going to get
Gale A. Brewer
1:39:36
Some of them think they are going to get it, just FYI.
Mitchell Katz
1:39:39
Not by the bill that got passed this morning.
Gale A. Brewer
1:39:42
Exactly.