Legislation now pending in Congress includes steep cuts to the healthcare Marketplace, which will result in millions more people becoming uninsured. These policy changes will have the greatest impact on the lowest-income Marketplace enrollees, many of whom are community health center patients.
A new analysis estimates how the proposed changes to Marketplace coverage will impact the number of privately insured adult community health center patients as well as health center revenue and net income. It finds that 826,000 to 2.1million CHC patients are at risk of losing private insurance coverage, with resulting revenue shortfalls of $2.1 billion to $6.0 billion by 2028.
You'll find our review, Up to 2.1 Million Community Health Center Patients at Risk of Losing Private Coverage in the Notes From Washington feature.
Scenario Planning Snapshots
Our colleagues at Capital Link have prepared new Scenario Planning Snapshots to supplement prior analyses that estimated the impact on health centers of proposed Medicaid eligibility changes and mandatory work requirements. The new snapshots estimate the impact of proposed changes to the healthcare Marketplace on the number of privately insured community health center patients and associated health center revenue and net income.
Capital Link’s Scenario Planner national snapshot and state -specific reports are available here.