Community Health Center Financing: The Role of Medicaid and Section 330 Grant Funding Explained

Issue Brief
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  3. Bureau of Primary Health Care. (2018). 2017 Health Center Data: National Data. (Table 4). Health Resources and Services Administration. https://bphc.hrsa.gov/uds/datacenter.aspx?q=tall&year=2017&state=

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  4. Shin, P., Alvarez, C., Sharac, J., Rosenbaum, S., Van Vleet, A., Paradise, J., Garfield, R. (2013) A Profile of Community Health Center Patients: Implications for Policy. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Kaiser Family Foundation and the RCHN Community Health Foundation. https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/8536-profile-of-chc-patients.pdf

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  5. Davis, K. & Schoen, C. (1978). Health and the War on Poverty. Brookings Institution.

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  6. National Association of Community Health Centers. (2018). The Facts about Medicaid’s FQHC Prospective Payment System (PPS). http://www.nachc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PPS-One-Pager-Update.pdf ; National Association of Community Health Centers. (2017). The FQHC Alternative Payment Methodology Toolkit: Fundamentals of Developing a Capitated FQHC APM. http://www.nachc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/NACHC_APMToolkit-1.pdf

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  7. Donlon, R., Dorr, H., & Purington, K. (2018). State Strategies to Develop Value-Based Payment Methodologies for Federally Qualified HealthCenters. National Academy for State Health Policy. https://nashp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Toolkit-State-Strategies-to-Develop-Value-Based-Alternative-Payment-Methodologies-for-FQHCs.pdf

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  8. Sharac, J., Shin, P., Gunsalus, R., & Rosenbaum, S. (2018). Community Health Centers Continued to Expand Patient and Service Capacity in 2017. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, George Washington University. Policy Research Brief No. 54. https://www.rchnfoundation.org/?p=7172

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  9. Holahan, J. & McMorrow, S. (2019). Slow Growth in Medicare and Medicaid Spending per enrollee has Implications for Policy Debates. Urban Institute. Available at https://www.urban.org/research/publication/slow-growth-medicare-and-medicaid-spending-enrollee-has-implications-policy-debates

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  10. Congressional Research Service. (2018). The Community Health Center Fund: In Brief. https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20180705_R43911_f21100072a0b68222720faa22cf9ce1dc3579192.pdf

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  13. https://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/sud-mh/

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  14. https://bphc.hrsa.gov/qualityimprovement/strategicpartnerships/hccn.html

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  15. https://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/behavioral-health-workforce/

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  16. https://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/Default.aspx?id=d2f001da-6b8e-47a5-b2ac-1a8703f2536a

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  17. https://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/zika/fy2017awards/

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  18. Rosenbaum, S., Sharac, J., Shin, P., & Gunsalus, R. (2019). Community Health Centers and the President’s HIV Initiative: Issues and Challenges Facing Health Centers in High-Burden States and Communities. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, George Washington University. Policy Research Brief No. 56. https://www.rchnfoundation.org/?p=7834

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  19. Fauci, A. S., Redfield, R. R., Sigounas, G., Weahkee, M. D., & Giroir, B. P. (2019). Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for the United States. JAMA. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2724455?utm_campaign=+36554179&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

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  20. Fiscal Year 2020 HHS Budget in Brief (March 11, 2019), available at https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2020-budget-in-brief.pdf

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