Outreach Services
The La Esperanza Clinic Outreach team dedicates their daytime efforts to screening patients for a range of programs addressing crucial needs such as insurance, food, housing, utilities, continuing education, and job training. They specialize in connecting patients to programs, services, and organizations that may be unfamiliar, offering support in both English and Spanish. Assistance with applications is readily available, ensuring a smooth process.
Beyond Basic Assistance
The Outreach Team goes beyond basic assistance, providing hope and peace of mind to patients facing various challenges in their lives.
Application
Assistance
The Outreach Team offers comprehensive application assistance, guiding individuals through the process for Marketplace and Your Texas Benefits, covering Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare Savings, SNAP, and Healthy Texas Women’s programs.
PAAP
Program
Through the Patients Assistance Access Program (PAAP), the Outreach Team provides vital support, including assistance with the food pantry and access to care coordination/case managers for the dispersal of durable medical equipment and bus vouchers.
Agency
Referrals
The Outreach Team actively provides referrals to local agencies and valuable application assistance for housing and utility programs, ensuring patients receive essential support for their needs.
Community
Engagement
Engaging with the community and patients, the Outreach Team actively participates in health fairs, speaking/education engagements, and collaborates as members of various coalitions, committees, and task groups to enhance healthcare awareness and access.
Schedule an Appointment with our Outreach Team
Our friendly staff is ready to assist you and ensure that your child receives the highest standard of service.
Call (325) 658-5339 to schedule an appointment today.
Application Assistance
The Outreach Team offers comprehensive application assistance, guiding individuals through the process for Marketplace and Your Texas Benefits, covering Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare Savings, SNAP, Healthy Texas Women's as well as other programs.
Marketplace
Shorthand for the “Health Insurance Marketplace®,” a shopping and enrollment service for medical insurance.
WIC
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk.
Medicaid
Medicaid is an insurance program that provides free or low-cost health coverage to some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
Medicare
Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and certain younger people with disabilities. It also covers people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).
Healthy Texas Women
The Healthy Texas Women program offers free women's health and family planning services to eligible, low-income women.
CHIP
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is an insurance program that provides low-cost health coverage to children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to buy private insurance. In some states, CHIP covers pregnant women.
Housing and Utility Programs
Assistance for low-income households in meeting their housing and utility needs.
Affordable Ways to Pay
La Esperanza Clinic offers several payment methods which allow patients to have access to the care they need at a cost they can afford.
Sliding fee discount is available based on family size and income, regardless of insurance status. Proof of income is required from all members in the patient's household in order for a patient to be eligible for the Sliding Fee Scale Discount Program.
Prescription Discount Program
La Esperanza Clinic Patients can receive prescription discounts at the following locations:
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Genoa
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Myers Drug
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H-E-B (original location)
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Medical Arts Pharmacy
For more information, please give us a call at (325) 658-5339.
We Take Most Insurance Plans
La Esperanza Clinic accepts a wide range of insurance plans to make your healthcare as affordable and accessible as possible.
If you have questions about insurance or would like to know if La Esperanza Clinic accepts your insurance plan, call our Billing Department at (325) 658-5339.
