Newsletter Articles | March 1, 2012
A Change In The System: How Health Care Reform Will Effect Federally Qualified Health Centers
A Change In The System: How Health Care Reform Will Effect Federally Qualified Health Centers
Community health centers have evolved from fringe providers to mainstays of many local health care systems. Those designated as federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), in particular, have largely established themselves as key providers of comprehensive, efficient, high-quality primary care services to low-income people, especially Medicaid and uninsured patients. The Center for Studying Health System Change’s (HSC’s) site visits to 12 nationally representative metropolitan communities since 1996 document substantial growth in FQHC capacity, based on growing numbers of Medicaid enrollees and . . .