{"id":14338,"date":"2025-07-16T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14338\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:01:10","slug":"congress-targeted-planned-parenthood-for-defunding-but-also-caught-a-maine-health-care-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14338\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress targeted Planned Parenthood for defunding, but also caught a Maine health care provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Maine Family Planning goes beyond abortion<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Maine Family Planning operates 18 clinics across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">In 2024, it had about 7,200 family planning patients, plus another 645 who obtained abortions. Services include pregnancy testing, contraception, family planning counseling, breast exams, cancer screenings and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Some of the sites also offer primary care services, where there are another 600 or so patients. There are about 800 gender-affirming care patients and about 200 who use its upstart mobile clinic, said George Hill, the president and CEO of the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Hill said that for about two-thirds of its patients, Maine Family Planning is the only place they get medical care in a typical year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">About half of the patients not seeking abortions are enrolled in Medicaid, and the clinics have been receiving about $1.9 million a year in reimbursements, which accounts for about one-fourth of the organization&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maine Family Planning goes beyond abortion Maine Family Planning operates 18 clinics across the state. In 2024, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-14338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}