Medicaid’s Role in Treating Children in Military Families
This analysis examines Medicaid’s role in meeting the health care needs of children in military families who receive their health insurance coverage through TRICARE.
Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Briefs
The Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative has produced studies and analyses across a broad range of issues:
- National health reform and medically underserved communities.
- Community health centers as public health first responders.
- Community health centers’ special roles for key patient populations, including veterans, agricultural workers and their families, those experiencing homelessness, as well as opportunities to improve population health.
- Community health centers’ role in the health of women and families.
- Efforts to roll back Medicaid gains for health center patients and medically underserved populations.
- The impact of policies on immigrant communities served by health centers.
- Health centers and delivery and payment reform.
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This Policy Brief for the California Endowment examines issues that can be expected to arise as California moves to significantly expand the use of mandatory managed care arrangements for Medi-Cal enrollees with disabilities.
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care
This brief provides an overview of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and the health challenges they face and considers options for improving their health coverage and access to care.
This Policy Brief begins with a brief overview of Medicaid and child health, examining both its early eligibility structure as well as the advent of Medicaid’s special benefit for children, which is known as “early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment (EPSDT).”
Economic Stress and the Safety Net
The issue paper provides data on the demographic profile of health center patients and the revenue sources available for financing their care, including increases in federal discretionary funding.