The Central Iowa Family Planning clinic in Marshalltown says it will close Friday, Nov.11, 2016.(Photo: Special to the Register)The leader of a longstanding family planning clinic in Marshalltown blames Iowa’s switch to privately managed Medicaid for her clinic’s looming closure.Central Iowa Family Planning has announced that it will stop seeing patients Friday. The clinic offers confidential access to birth control and free testing for sexually transmitted diseases. The Marshalltown clinic and a satellite office in Grinnell served a total of nearly 1,800 patients last year, Executive Director Mandi Beeghly said Monday.Beeghly said the clinic’s demise, first reported by the Marshalltown Times-Republican, is directly related to Iowa’s shift last spring to private management of the state Medicaid program. “That was a battle we just couldn’t win,” she said.The controversial Medicaid change put three national corporations in charge of administering the program, which serves …
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