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Funding opportunity for community health centersdownload
Best Practices in Outreach and Enrollment for Health Centersdownload- Health Centers’ Important Role In Outreach and Enrollmentdownload
- ACA Funding for Georgia Community Healthview
- How the Supreme Court’s Medicaid Decision May Affect Health Centers: An Early Estimatedownload
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for community health centers to receive funding to support health centers in raising awareness of insurance options and providing eligibility and enrollment assistance to uninsured patients of health centers and residents in their approved service areas. HRSA intends to award about $150 million under the FY 2013 Health Center Outreach and Enrollment Assistance Supplemental Funding initiative to eligible §330 funded community health centers. They are accepting applications until May 31, 2013.
District of Columbia
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, analyzes the impact on community health centers of states’ refusal to implement the Medicaid expansion under the ACA. The report, “How the Supreme Court’s Medicaid Decision May Affect Health Centers: An Early Estimate,” demonstrates that implementing the Medicaid expansion will enable community health center capacity to nearly double, and reach approximately 19.8 million new patients. Conversely, without a full Medicaid expansion, capacity to serve additional patients would be reduced by nearly 27 percent, a 5.3 million decrease in new patients served.