Community Health Centers Face Uncertainty Over Long Term Funding: New Analysis
Federal funding delays threaten the national community health center network, where more than 50% of all organizations are already operating on thin margins.
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Community Health Centers in Financial Jeopardy Without Sufficient Federal Funding
As Congress advances short-term stop-gap funding bill new data explores on the current financial status of the nation’s community health centers and the potential consequences of funding delays.
Two New Data Notes: Medicaid Unwinding and CHC Funding
Health center capacity has been buoyed by significant federal investments and Medicaid expansion. Delays in funding and Medicaid unwinding threaten CHC services.
Geiger Gibson Update: What is the Status of Braidwood? and what are its potential effects?
New amicus brief filed by Deans and Scholars / APHA on Braidwood Mgmt. Inc. v. Becerra draws on evidence contained in a series of new analyses prepared by GWU health policy research team detailing the potential impact of the case challenging coverage for preventive screening.
Braidwood Management v Becerra Puts Over a Decade of Progress in Preventive Health Care At Risk
Amicus brief highlights new findings from GWU researchers on the extraordinary preventive health gains at stake in Braidwood Management v Becerra.
A new report presents the most detailed evidence to date regarding the potential effects on mothers and children of Braidwood Management v Becerra, which challenges the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s comprehensive free preventive benefit guarantee for nearly all privately insured people.
Out today is our latest policy brief, Braidwood Management v Becerra Could Eliminate Three Quarters of the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Benefits for Women, Infants, and Children, a comprehensive look at the potential implications of this significant case which could radically reduce free preventive care for women, infants, and children.
Geiger Gibson Update: Role of CHCs in Protecting Coverage for Pregnancy and Postpartum Care
Date note explores the robust scope of community health centers in providing prenatal and postpartum services, and explains their crucial role in mitigating disenrollment as a result of the unwinding of the continuous Medicaid enrollment protections enacted during the COVID pandemic, and protecting coverage and care.
Health Centers Look to Funding Lifeline as Challenges Loom
Geiger Gibson research on Medicaid unwinding cited in Bloomberg Law. Professor Emerita and Geiger Gibson Program founder Sara Rosenbaum was interviewed for this article,
Geiger Gibson Update: Federal Grants are Essential to CHCs
Data note from the Geiger Gibson Program, Federal Grants are Essential to Community Health Centers, examines the role of federal health center grants in supporting health center services and operations.