Watchdog pleased with tentative deal between Carle Clinic, state

URBANA – Claudia Lennhoff is used to moving the barriers standing between low-income patients and the medical care they need.

But five years ago, she faced a bigger obstacle when her organization, Champaign County Health Care Consumers, started hearing complaints about scores of Medicaid patients being turned away at Carle Clinic and Christie Clinic.

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