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TracFone has been working with healthcare organizations, “including...

TracFone has been working with healthcare organizations, “including most of the leading Health Maintenance Organizations,” since 2012 to enroll Medicaid patients in its SafeLink Wireless Lifeline program, it said in an FCC filing. In addition to standard SafeLink features, including…

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a handset and 250 minutes a month of airtime, the Medicaid members get unlimited text messaging with their healthcare provider, toll-free member services calling and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant communications with their providers, TracFone said (http://bit.ly/1lC4GJ9). The program has been a success, the carrier said. “It has improved access to health care providers for the Medicaid community, and has resulted in cost savings for the providers,” TracFone said. “More importantly, it has facilitated real time communications between health care providers and patients.”