Flint Hills Community Health Center employees will get a pay raise starting next month following a vote by the health center’s board of directors Tuesday afternoon.
At the end of 2007, board members voted to hold raises to a 1 percent cost of living raise to see what the center was looking like financially. At that time, merit raises were temporarily suspended. The center, at the end of 2007, was understaffed on the provider side on a significant scale.
After reviewing the 2008 financial forecast, the board on Tuesday decided to re-implement merit raises starting Sept. 1. The center now is fully staffed in the provider side and there are more dentists than originally planned for the newly remodeled dental clinic.
“I think this is an excellent good-faith effort on the board,” said Lougene Marsh, executive director of the health center.
In other business, the board voted to approve updated charges for medical records requests. The new charges will be a base fee of $15 plus a 50-cent per page charge. The maximum that can be charged is $40.
The health center will not charge other healthcare providers for records needed for continuing care, for school purposes, for insurance or for worker’s compensation. Fees will be waived for patients who show financial need.
In other business, it was reported that in July, Graves Drugs dispensed 868 prescriptions to 502 patients under the 340B drug program. The average cost to the client was $7.44 per prescription with the average cost to patients greater than 100 percent of the federal poverty level at $4.67.
Happiness08 (anonymous) says...
It says MERIT raises. I think very few will be getting a raise.
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