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Emerging Issues in FQHC Reimbursement Issue Brief (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief explains updated emerging issues of the FQHC payment system. The document explains in detail how payment works for FQHCs. More Details...

Defining an Effective Change in Scope (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document explains the definition of a Medicaid change in scope and why this process is important for payment and care transformation. More Details...

Medicaid FQHC PPS Checklist (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource outlines important information regarding the Medicaid FQHC Prospective Payment System. Federal law requires that State Medicaid agencies pay federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs or “health centers”) using a prospective payment system (PPS). This Medicaid FQHC Prospective Payment System Checklist is designed to assist FQHCs and Primary Care Associations (PCAs) in assessing FQHCs’ PPS rates and in pursuing strategies to make the PPS methodology work better. More Details...

Group Visits Fact Sheet (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource goes into detail on group visits in Medicare and Medicaid and how payment works. More Details...

Clinical Leadership Core Competencies: Domains, Skills, Tasks (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document outlines 11 domains, related tasks, and behavioral examples for Core Competencies for Clinical Leaders. These domains and related tasks and examples were identified and vetted through a National Advisory Panel made up of key staff who would have interaction with the Clinical Leader position in various settings. More Details...

General & Basic Operations for Clinical Leaders (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Office Hour is led by a subject matter expert to discuss and answer participants' questions about the importance of general and basic operations as part of a clinical leader's core competency development. More Details...

Office Hour: Systems Orientation for Clinical Leaders (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Office Hour webinar brings together subject matter experts to address - and answer participants' questions about - a systems orientation within a Clinical Leader's core competency development. Through real-life examples and case studies, it focuses on enhancing a Clinical Leader's ability to: (1) Utilize both "big picture" and detailed systems thinking when analyzing issues; (2) Align tactical clinical operations with the center's mission, vision, and values; (3) Manage change within the clinical staff as the center moves toward new models of care delivery; and (4) Actively work to integrate Public/Population Health issues with routine primary care. More Details...

Office Hour: Resiliency and Joy in Work (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Office Hour webinar features subject matter experts who address - and answer participants' questions about - the critical issue of resiliency and joy in work as part of a Clinical Leader's core competency development. The focus is on understanding and actualizing joy in practice, both personally and for/with the clinical team. More Details...

Cost Per Visit: Measuring Health Center Performance (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Developed by Capital Link and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) as an update to NACHC’s original 2003 publication,Cost Per Visit – Measuring Health Center Performance, reviews in detail the process and methodology for calculating the component costs of care with a focus on cost per visit across all service lines — medical, dental, mental health (including substance abuse), and vision services. It also examines methods for reducing health center costs through population health management, global payment methodologies, and tying reimbursements to outcomes. More Details...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Competencies Domains and Skills/Tasks: CEO Core Competencies (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document outlines 12 domains, related tasks, and behavioral examples for Core Competencies for the Health Center CEO. These domains and related tasks and examples were identified and vetted through a National Advisory Panel made up of key staff who would have interaction with the CEO position in various settings. More Details...

The Fundamentals of Developing a FQHC APM (2017). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides the basis for developing capitated FQHC APM and some best practices. More Details...

Growing Our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Physicians in Community Health Centers (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: It is critical to advance policies and programs that help community health centers (CHCs) become Educational Health Centers (EHCs)2 and “grow their own” primary care training opportunities. This paper explores several pathways for promoting CHCs as teaching environments - enhanced partnerships between Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and CHCs (with either the AMC or the CHC as the sponsoring institution3), and CHCs participating in HRSA Teaching Health Center (THC) funding opportunities (with sponsorship either by the CHC alone or by a consortium body) - and posits a spectrum of options and costs associated with each of these pathways to train medical residents. More Details...

ACO 101 (2017). Resource Type: elearning. Description: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to the patients they serve. A successful ACO puts the patient at the center of all its activities and ensure coordination of care. This 60 minute webinar will provide the basics of what an ACO is and what it is not, what the expectations are of participoants in an ACO, and how success is measured. More Details...

Diabetes Prevention:New Pathways for Reimbursement (2017). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, participants will hear Dr. Ann Albright, the Director of the Division of Diabetes Translation at the CDC give an overview of the National DPP, Kelly McCracken of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) provide details on a project in Maryland and Oregon to demonstrate how the National DPP’s lifestyle change program can be delivered to the Medicaid population as well as become a covered benefit for that population, and Laura Summers of Leavitt Partners provide an overview of an online National DPP Coverage Toolkit to assist private and public payers interested in covering the service More Details...

Emergency Department Care Coordination: Targeted Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and Decrease Costs (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief outlines strategies to achieve emergency department (ED) care coordination, summarize important legal and policy issues, and provides case studies of health centers that have implemented successful ED care coordination. More Details...

Outreach and Enrollment Case Study #3: Borinquen Medical Centers of Miami-Dade (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Since 2013, over 1,300 health centers nationwide have received federal funding to conduct outreach and enrollment (O&E) activities. This case study - the third produced by the National Association of Community Health Centers - examines how Borinquen Medical Centers, a federally qualified health center in Miami, FL, transformed their practice operations in order to conduct outreach and enroll uninsured community members into health insurance coverage. This case study examines the impacts that these activities had on the health center's finances, operations, and social determinants of health. More Details...

Catalog of Community Health Needs Assessment Tools and Resources (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This catalog provides a thorough list of the available tools and resources for conducting a CHNA, including a brief description, a link to the resource, a list of notable features, the target audience, examples of use, and the cost to access the resource. More Details...

Outreach and Enrollment Case Study: The Impact of Insurance Enrollment on a Federally Qualified Health Center (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: No annotation provided by the authoring organization. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hour: Remote Patient Monitoring (n.a.). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: During this webinar, you’ll learn about the practical aspects of implementing an RPM program in your health center. We discuss impact on Operations, staff considerations, patient guidance, communicating outcomes and sustainability of the program. More Details...

Outreach and Enrollment Case Study #2: The Impact of Insurance Enrollment on Community Health Centers (n.a.). Resource Type: Publication. Description: No annotation provided by the authoring organization. More Details...