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Update On The Status Of The Medicaid Prospective Payment System In The States, Roger Schwartz, Peter Shin, Megan Reilly
Update On The Status Of The Medicaid Prospective Payment System In The States, Roger Schwartz, Peter Shin, Megan Reilly
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 replaced the traditional cost-based reimbursement system for federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs) with a new prospective payment system. States were also allowed to implement an alternative payment methodology (APM) as long as it did not pay less than what FQHCs would have received under PPS and the affected FQHC agreed to the APM. Although changes in payment policies were to take effect in 2001, states were slow to implement them and most only did so after one or two years. With little or no oversight by the federal government, the National Association of …
Laying The Foundation: Health System Reform In New York State And The Primary Care Imperative, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Ramona Whittington
Laying The Foundation: Health System Reform In New York State And The Primary Care Imperative, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Ramona Whittington
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
New York State has embarked on a substantial effort to restructure its health care system as a result of rapidly escalating health care expenditures, especially with respect to Medicaid expenditures for institutional health care. But it is impossible to alter these high cost health expenditures without strengthening and expanding the primary care foundation on which New York's health system rests.
Health Centers Reauthorization: An Overview Of Achievements And Challenges, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin
Health Centers Reauthorization: An Overview Of Achievements And Challenges, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Since the establishment of the first health center in 1965, health centers have evolved into an essential component of the health care safety net. Today, over 1,000 federally funded and "look-alike" health centers serve 14.3 million people, three-quarters of whom are uninsured or covered by Medicaid. As the nation's largest primary care system, health centers care for one in five low-income uninsured persons and one in nine Medicaid beneficiaries.