The Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative has produced studies and analyses across a broad range of issues:
Laying the Foundation: Health System Reform in New York State and the Primary Care Imperative
Following a description of the health reform initiatives underway in NYS, the authors identify a series of major barriers that impede the development and operation of a well functioning primary care system.
Health Centers Reauthorization: An Overview of Achievements and Challenges
This report reviews the role of community health centers (CHCs) in the nation's health care safety net, and the policy changes faced by CHCs as they look toward legislative reauthorization in 2006, including an increase in the uninsured populations, potential decreases in Medicaid revenue, and a need to increase health centers' workforce.
This analysis, prepared for The California Endowment, examines how other states have addressed issues that arise in designing, implementing and overseeing compulsory managed care systems for persons with disabilities and serious and chronic health conditions.
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.
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.
