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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39. Community Health Centers and Their Role for Patients Enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

An analysis carried out by researchers at the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) shows that health centers served over 350,000 CHIP beneficiaries in 2013, one in twenty-five CHIP beneficiaries that year. In certain states however, community health centers cared for anywhere from 10 to 38 percent of patients enrolled in CHIP.

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38. Using Payment Reform Strategies to Strengthen Family Planning Services at Community Health Centers.

A new report issued by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative and the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, based at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University, describes how payment reform could improve family planning services offered by the nation’s community health centers. 

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Community Health Centers: A 2012 Profile and Spotlight on Implications of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions.

Writing for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Community Health Centers: A 2012 Profile and Spotlight on Implications of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions provides a snapshot of community health centers prior to implementation of the Affordable care Act.

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37. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs: A 2014 Update.

In an  updated analysis of their  November 2013 report, authors Leigton Ku, Julia Zur, Emily Jones, Peter Shin and Sara Rosenbaum use  more recent data to estimate the number of patients who could be served in health centers in 2014 and 2020, depending on the outcome of key federal and state policy decisions: support for health center funding (either through a continuation of mandatory funding or an increase in discretionary appropriation levels) and state implementation of Medicaid expansion.

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Falling Through the Cracks: Medicaid Expansion and Opt-out States.

Falling Through the Cracks: Medicaid Expansion and Opt-out States.

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36. Assessing the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Uninsured Community Health Center Patients: An Update.

An updated analysis of the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on uninsured health center patients estimates that  1.1 million community health center patients are left without the benefits of health coverage simply because they live in one of 24 states that have opted out of the Medicaid expansion.

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35. Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers’ Outreach and Enrollment Activities.

The first study to gauge the impact of state restrictions on the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) indicates that community health centers  across the country are engaged in an intensive effort to find and enroll eligible and uninsured patients and community residents. 

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34. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs.

A new report by examines the impact of federal and state policy decisions on community health centers and their ability to continue providing primary care to the nation’s poorest residents. The report is authored by Leighton Ku, Julia Zur, Emily Jones, Peter Shin and Sara Rosenbaum.

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33. Assessing the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Uninsured Community Health Center Patients: A Nationwide and State-by-State Analysis).

In a new brief, authors Peter Shin, Jessica Sharac and Sara Rosenbaum estimate that more than 5 million health center patients would have gained coverage had all states participated in a sweeping Medicaid expansion.

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32. Assessing the Potential Impact of Sequestration on Community Health Centers, Patients, and Medically Underserved Communities.

A new report by the Peter Shin, Jessica Sharac, Carmen Alvarez, and Sara Rosenbaum examines the potential impact of sequestration on community health centers and their patients and communities.