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Employees brought into healthcare tiff between state and Louisiana clinics


Employees brought into healthcare tiff between state and Louisiana clinics
Mark Ballard
BATON ROUGE The head of a statewide group of walk-in clinics emailed about 228,000 state employees, retirees and their dependents across Louisiana, as well as all 144 legislators, trying to enlist their support in a $40 million contract dispute with the state.
Mary N. Smith, president of Access2day Health, based in Bossier City, asked subscribers to most of the health insurance plans offered to those with government jobs to call the state Office of Group Benefits, called OGB, and their legislator to ask Why? Why? Why? Why would the new OGB management seek to cancel a program that allows visits to no-appointment clinics without having to come out of pocket for co-pays and deductibles. ....

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