Format:
1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
ISBN:
9781620819388
Series Statement:
Health Care Issues, Costs and Access
Content:
Intro -- FEDERAL HEALTH CENTERS IMPROVING CARE FOR THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED -- FEDERAL HEALTH CENTERS IMPROVING CARE FOR THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 FEDERAL HEALTH CENTERS* -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS THE FEDERAL HEALTH CENTER PROGRAM? -- Statutory Authority and General Requirements25 -- Location Requirements -- Fee Schedule Requirements -- Medicaid Coordination and Reimbursement Requirements -- Governance Requirements -- Health Service Requirements -- Reporting and Quality Assurance Requirements -- Licensing and Accreditation Requirements -- Grants that Support Federal Health Centers -- Types of Grants Available to Support Health Centers -- Grant Eligibility and Awarding Criteria -- What Is the Health Center Program's Appropriation? -- What Are the Other Sources of Funding for the Health Center Program? -- WHAT ARE HEALTH CENTERS? -- What Types of Health Centers Exist? -- Community Health Centers -- Health Centers for the Homeless -- Health Centers for Residents of Public Housing -- Migrant Health Centers -- Who Uses Health Centers? -- Where Are Health Centers Located? -- What Outcomes Are Associated with Health Center Use? -- Health Outcomes -- Cost Outcomes -- Access to Health Care -- Which Federal Programs Are Available to Health Centers? -- National Health Service Corps Providers -- J-1 Visa Waivers -- Federally Qualified Health Center Designation87 -- 340B Drug Pricing Program92 -- Vaccines for Children Program94 -- Federal Torts Claims Act Coverage -- Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Grants99 -- Other Federal Grant Programs'0' -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Health Centers and Health Insurance Expansion in the ACA -- Health Centers and Medicaid Expansion -- Health Centers and ACA Private Insurance Expansions -- Health Center Workforce -- National Health Service Corps Providers
Content:
Teaching Health Centers -- Financial Considerations -- Health Center Appropriations and the Community Health Center Fund -- Health Center Appropriations and the Budget Control Act -- Health Center Funding and ACA Care Coordination Initiatives -- Health Center Funding and State Funding Availability145 -- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- APPENDIX A. OTHER FEDERAL PROGRAMS THAT MAY PROVIDE PRIMARY CARE TO THE UNDERSERVED -- School-Based Health Centers -- Nurse-Managed Health Clinics -- Community Mental Health Centers -- Native Hawaiian Health Care -- Tribal Health Centers -- Rural Health Clinics -- Free Clinics -- FQHC Look-Alikes -- APPENDIX B. MEDICARE AND MEDICAID PAYMENTS AND BENEFICIARY COST SHARING FOR HEALTH CENTER SERVICES -- Medicare Payments to Health Centers -- ACA Payment Changes -- Mental Health Service Payment Changes -- Medicaid Payments -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 REPORT TO CONGRESS: EFFORTS TO EXPAND AND ACCELERATE HEALTH CENTER PROGRAM QUALITY IMPROVEMENT* -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACRONYMS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Congressional Report Mandate -- Expanding and Accelerating Health Center Quality Improvement: HRSA Efforts and Results -- Access -- Quality -- Cost -- Sustaining and Advancing Quality Improvement -- INTRODUCTION -- Report Mandate and Purpose -- The State of Health Center Quality Improvement -- Increasing Access -- Improving Quality -- Controlling Cost -- Sustaining and Advancing Health Center Quality -- THE HEALTH CENTER MODEL OF QUALITY CARE2 -- How Do Health Centers Serve Their Patients? -- Whom Do Health Centers Serve? -- People of All Ages -- People without Health Insurance -- People of All Races and Ethnicities -- Special Populations -- Migrant Health Centers -- Health Care for the Homeless Program -- Public Housing Primary Care Health Centers -- How are Health Centers Supported?
Content:
HRSA EFFORTS TO EXPAND AND ACCELERATE HEALTH CENTER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT -- I. Federal Quality Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting Requirements -- Tracking and Analyzing Quality Improvement: HRSA's Uniform Health Center Performance Measures -- Tailoring Performance Measures for the Health Care Safety Net -- Monitoring Health Center Quality Performance and Minimizing Reporting Burden: Aligning HRSA Grant and Data Reporting Requirements -- II. Identification of Effective Quality Improvement Models -- Identifying Health Center Best Practices21 -- Addressing Care Coordination, Disease Management, and Multiple, Co-Occurring Conditions -- Providing the Right Care -- Delivering Coordinated Care -- Providing Patient-Centered Care -- Improving Access and Targeting the Underserved -- "Virtual" Health Center Expansion -- Improving Access to Specialty Services -- Enhancing the Use of Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality -- HRSA Leadership in HIT Adoption and Implementation -- III. Adopting and Adapting Effective Quality Improvement Models -- The HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives -- Improving Patient Safety and Managing Multiple Conditions: The HRSA Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative -- Providing Individualized Quality Improvement Support on the Ground: HRSA's Office of Regional Operations -- Moving Quality Improvement Efforts Forward at the State Level: Primary Care Association Activities -- IV. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCES -- Technical Assistance for Quality Improvement: National and State-level Health Center Resources -- Ensuring Continuous and Coordinated Care for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: The Migrant Clinicians Network - Migrant Health Network -- Ensuring High Quality Care for People Experiencing Homelessness: The Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network
Content:
Supporting Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management: The Health Center Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Medical Malpractice Program -- Closing the Gap on Patient-Provider Communication: HRSA's Unified Health Communication Web Based Training Program81 -- V. Evaluating Quality Improvement Interventions -- Assessing the Health Center Patient Experience: The 2009 HRSA Patient Survey -- Continuous Quality Improvement: Analyzing and Tracking Health Center Trends, Needs and Performance -- Tailoring New Health Center Performance Measures Developing Additional Standard Clinical Metrics -- VI. Sustaining Quality Improvement Interventions -- Expanding and Strengthening Access to Health Center Care -- Targeting and Reaching the Underserved -- Expanding and Sustaining Access to Affordable and Timely Primary Care -- Opening Health Center Doors in More Communities -- Strengthening Health Center Capacity -- Expanding Health Center Services -- Overcoming Barriers by Enabling Access to Care -- Sustaining and Reinforcing the Health Center Model: HRSA's Performance Analysis and Recommendations (PAR) Review Tool -- Assisting Health Center to Achieve National Quality Standards: The Health Center Program Accreditation Initiative -- VII. Quality Improvement Partnerships -- Partnering to Promote Health Centers as Patient Centered Medical Homes: The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative90 -- Collaborating to Reduce Disparities in Hispanic Elders' Health: Community Partnerships for Evidence Based Solutions91 -- Reaching out to Reduce Childhood Obesity: The National We Can! Initiative92 -- Improving HIV Prevention and Interventions in Primary Care: Developing Effective Health Center Models -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A: HEALTH CARE SAFETY NET ACT OF 2008 PUBLIC LAW 110-355 -- REFERENCES -- End Notes
Content:
Chapter 3 QUALITY INCENTIVES FOR FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS, RURAL HEALTH CLINICS AND FREE CLINICS: A REPORT TO CONGRESS* -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Quality and Health Information Technology (HIT) Incentives -- THE QUALITY ENVIRONMENT OF FQHCS, RHCS, AND FREE CLINICS -- The HIT Environment of FQHCs, RHCs, and Free Clinics -- Conclusion -- INTRODUCTION -- Purpose of This Report -- A Comparison of the Three Types of Safety Net Primary Care Providers -- Key Differences between FQHCs and RHCS -- OVERVIEW OF MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND CHIP PAYMENTS TO FQHCS AND RHCS -- Types of Quality Criteria and Incentives -- Payment Incentives -- Grants -- Additional Benefits -- Preferences -- Workforce Support -- Technical Assistance -- FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS -- Background -- Definition and Federal Requirements -- Health Center Patients36 -- Impact of FQHCs on Cost and Quality -- Reimbursement Policies for FQHCS -- Quality Initiatives in FQHCs -- Origins of Today's Quality Initiatives -- Bureau Common Reporting Requirement -- Clinical Outcome Measures by Life Cycle (1980s, pre-HEDIS) -- Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDC) (1998-2008) -- Current HRSA/BPHC Initiatives Regarding Quality Activities -- Requirement for on-going Quality Improvement/ Quality Assurance Program -- Annual Uniform Data System (UDS) Reporting with Clinical Measures -- Performance Measures in Grant Applications -- Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Deeming -- Accreditation Initiative -- Medical Home Initiatives -- Health Information Technology (HIT) -- Adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) -- Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) -- Patient Registries and Clinical Data Warehouses -- Quality Incentive Programs -- Quality Incentives in Medicaid and Commercial Managed Care Plans -- Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
Content:
"Health Home" Demonstration Projects: Medicare, Medicaid, Multi-Payer
Additional Edition:
9781620818954
Additional Edition:
Print version Gibson, Langston E Federal Health Centers: Improving Care for the Medically Underserved Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated,c2012 9781620818954
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