A new report prepared by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative examines how health centers and state Medicaid programs in a number of Medicaid expansion states are working to reform Medicaid in order to promote efficiency and quality, and more actively integrate health centers into states’ broader payment reform efforts. These alternative payment approaches enable health centers to test new strategies to address the needs of their patients, while allowing state Medicaid programs to align health center payment strategies more closely with broader payment reform efforts. In 2015, health centers cared for one in five Medicaid beneficiaries nationally, making Inclusion of health centers in payment reform essential.
Peter Shin, Jessica Sharac, Zoe Barber and Sara Rosenbaum authored the report.