- Using Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Potential Impact of Health Centers
October 14, 2009
An analysis of provisions to expand health insurance coverage now under consideration in the Senate has been released by The Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. “Using Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Potential Impact of Health Center Expansion in …
- Legislation to Expand Medicaid Will Generate Revenue for Cash-Strapped States; Every Dollar Invested in Medicaid Helps Generate Two to Six Dollars in New Business Activities
October 7, 2009
A new study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Estimating the Economic Gains for States as a Result of Medicaid Coverage Expansions for Adults, finds that the Medicaid expansions under consideration in Congress not only will improve the health and well-being of previously uninsured individuals and families …
- Increasing Health Center Capacity by 20 Million Patients Could Save More Than $200 Billion Over the Next Decade; Medicaid Savings Could Surpass $59 Billion
September 1, 2009
Expanding health centers to reach an additional 20 million patients as part of national health reform would result in overall health care savings of $212 billion over the ten-year period 2010 to 2019, including federal Medicaid savings of $59 billion.
- Investment in Community Health Centers Can Save States Millions of Dollars; Lower Medical Costs Resulted in Savings of $473 Million for Indiana’s Health Care System
July 29, 2009
Investment in community-based health centers could save states millions of dollars a year, according to a new study “Community Health Centers in Indiana: State Investments and Returns” conducted by faculty and staff at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
- New Report Finds Health Reform Could More Than Double Health Center Capacity; Adequate Payment Rates by Exchange Health Plans Would Expand Health Centers’ Reach by Millions
July 23, 2009
A new research brief from The George Washington University Department of Health Policy, supported by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, examines the effects of the draft House Tri-Committee (Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor and Ways and Means Committees) health reform bill on the capacity of community health centers to provide primary …
- New Report Examines How National Health Reform May Affect the More than 96 Million Residents of America’s Medically Underserved Communities
July 9, 2009
A new Research Brief from the GW Department of Health Policy, supported by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, examines the potential effects of national health reform on the nation’s 96.2 million residents of urban and rural medically underserved communities.
- CySolutions Acquires Chorus from RCHN Community Health Foundation
July 7, 2009
The RCHN Community Health Foundation (RCHN CHF) and CySolutions, Inc. today announced that CySolutions has acquired Chorus, a health care information technology firm that provides integrated software solutions and services for community health centers (CHCs). RCHN CHF is a New York-based not-for-profit operating foundation focused on serving CHCs.
- An Estimated 45,000 Physicians Qualify for Medicaid HIT Adoption Incentive Payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), New Study Finds
July 7, 2009
About 45,000 office-based physicians, including nearly all physicians who practice at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and half of office-based pediatricians, may be eligible for up to $63,750 over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology (HIT) systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a new analysis by GW researchers …
- Puerto Rico’s Community Health Center Program Crippled by Underfunding: Immediate Investment Required to Restore Centers’ Capacity to Care for Thousands, Achieve Cost Savings
April 22, 2009
Immediate Investment Required to Restore Centers’ Capacity to Care for Thousands, Achieve Cost Savings
- New Research Reveals Community Health Centers Caring for More Patients in Wake of Massachusetts Health Reform: Findings Underscore Need for More Robust Primary Care Safety Net
March 24, 2009
Findings Underscore Need for More Robust Primary Care Safety Net
- The United Health Foundation commits major grant to the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at GWU
February 23, 2009
Collaborative Applauds Foundation Support for Study of Health Centers’ Use of Stimulus Dollars
- Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage to Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women: Implications for Community Health and Health Care for Tomorrow’s Citizens
January 13, 2009
Restoring access to Medicaid and SCHIP coverage for legally-admitted immigrants – some of the nation’s most vulnerable children and pregnant women – is imperative and the current SCHIP reauthorization debate represents an opportunity to restore these critical services, according to a new analysis issued by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at The …
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