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Lags Medical Centers, which has multiple pain management clinics across the state including in Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Merced counties, have abruptly closed leaving patients coping with chronic pain scrambling to find alternative care.
Lags, which on its website touts it operates 38 clinics in 25 counties with nearly 30,000 patients across California and Nevada, said it specialized in treating a large base of underserved Medicaid/Medicare patients who often experience challenges in accessing healthcare.
Vance Hallman, whose wife and son are patients at the Tulare County clinic, said the sudden closure has shaken his family. You have 28,000 people cut off with nowhere to go. Do you know that when people start at a new clinic they have to start the whole process of getting new doctors and then those doctors have to refer them to other overloaded pain management clinics? he said. Meanwhile they have to suffer three to