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Cash Shortages and Complex Rules Impede Native American Health-Care Access - KFF Health News

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Each year , the Indian Health Service rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund outside care that it doesn’t provide.

The agency’s Purchased/Referred Care program is supposed to provide free care to Native Americans .

But funding shortages, complex rules and administrative fumbles impede access to the program.