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Service Line Expansion: A Guide for Health Center Boards (English and Spanish) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers sometimes consider adding new services. If your health center is considering expanding the services it offers, your board of directors is a critical part of the process. This guide provides health center boards with an overview of service line expansion including why a health center might consider such expansion; information on the board’s role in the process; and questions to help guide decisions around expansion. More Details...

Geographic Expansion: A Guide for Health Center Boards (English and Spanish) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers sometimes consider expanding geographically, often by adding new sites. If your health center is considering expanding geographically, your board of directors is a crucial part of the process. This guide provides health center boards with an overview of geographic expansion. It provides an overview of why a health center might consider such expansion; information on the board’s role in the process; and questions to help guide decisions around expansion. More Details...

Medicaid Unwinding Listening Session - February 8, 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: On February 8th, 2023, NACHC and Georgetown University hosted a listening session for health centers, Primary Care Associations (PCAs), and other Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), on the Medicaid Unwinding provisions and state plans on Medicaid Redeterminations. More Details...

Becoming a Teaching Health Center: Tips for Health Center Boards (English and Spanish) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource offers tips for boards when a health center is considering starting the process to become a Teaching Health Center. It offers a case example of how one board used these strategies. More Details...

Tips for Boards on Health Center Workforce Challenges and Opportunities (2023). Resource Type: Elearning. Description: NACHC has developed two resources – an article and companion video – related to workforce for health center boards. The article provides tips that a board can consider in partnership with the CEO to help address workforce challenges and opportunities through board-level functions, including strategic planning, budget approval, policy approval, and other forms of oversight and board development. Available in English and Spanish. A companion video provides a summary of the article. Boards may find it helpful to watch the companion video to generate discussion about the board’s role related to workforce challenges and opportunities. More Details...

Telehealth Reimbursement (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document discusses changes to telehealth reimbursement, providing basic guidelines to navigate frequent changes in policy. More Details...

Telehealth E/M Coding (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document summarizes the 2021 E/M coding guidelines for office visits, inlcuding a chart of E/M guidelines for medical decision making. More Details...

Telehealth Documentation (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document outlines the documentation requirements for telehealth services beyond those required for inperson visit. It also discusses medicial decision making and changes to the time component. More Details...

Telehealth Billing (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document describes telehealth billing practices, focusing on correct place of service and modifiers for commercial payers. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hour: Telehealth Policy Updates (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As telehealth policy continues to change throughout the Public Health Emergency (PHE), it is imperative for health centers to understand what steps to take throughout the PHE and when it concludes. Join NACHC and the Center for Connected Health Policy as we review the most recent telehealth policy updates in 2023 that could impact your operations. More Details...

10th Open Enrollment Period Halfway Point: Finishing Strong and Laying the Groundwork for the Future (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The 10th Open Enrollment Period of the Affordable Care Act began on November 1st, 2022, and runs through January 15, 2023, in states that utilize Healthcare.gov. States with their own Marketplace Exchanges may have longer open enrollment periods. More Details...

World AIDS Day: Spreading the Word About PrEP (Blog Post) (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This World AIDS Day blog post highlights the progress being made towards ending the HIV and AIDS global epidemics. More Details...

Creativity & Healing: Daydream with a Purpose (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is first session of a 4-part webinar series highlighting the benefits of integrating arts into health center programs for staff and/or patients. This unique learning opportunity provides participants with experiential, creative/arts-based activities. Featured health center and behavioral experts will provide an overview of the evidence for practical programming. More Details...

Eyes on Access: We’ve Decided to Offer Vision Services in Our Health Center, Now What? (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar hosted by the National Association of Community Health Centers, Prevent Blindness, and the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, takes a deeper dive into the feasibility of opening an optometry department within a community health center. More Details...

Vaccine Ambassador Project Infographic (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This infographic provides an overview of a CDC-Funded Vaccine Ambassador Project led by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the National Association of Community Health Centers. The project began in 2021 and extended through 2023. More Details...

Environmental Scan of Telehealth Technical Assistance Resources: A Product of the National Health Center Telehealth Resource Center Project, 2022 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NACHC and the Center for Connected Health Policy provide a curated list of top telehealth technical assistance resources for FQHCs interested in implementing, operating, expanding or sustaining a telehealth program. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hours: Telehealth Reimbursement (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC Telehealth Office Hours targets health center, PCA, and HCCN staff who have questions or want to share information about telehealth related policy and operational activities. In addition to updates and Q&A, each session will focus on a specific topic of concern. More Details...

Excelling in Your Role as a Health Center Leader (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This 4-part series provides the essential skills and tools needed to be an effective leader and not just “the boss.” Learn how to motivate employees and how to manage relationships. Learn the keys to effective communication, become a listening leader, and how to develop a culture ripe for curiosity and innovation. More Details...

Business Continuity Planning Interactive Learning Modules (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: These interactive learning modules are intended to provide community health centers and primary care associations with self-guided learning tools to create and/or improve their business continuity plans and programs. More Details...

Tips for Health Center Boards for Evaluating the Sliding Fee Discount Program (2022). Resource Type: Microlearning. Description: Health center boards are required to adopt, review and evaluate at least once every three years, and, as needed, approve updates to the Sliding Fee Discount Program as noted in Chapter 19: Board Authority in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program Compliance Manual. This short video provides tips on how boards can work with the health center CEO to evaluate and approve updates to the Sliding Fee Discount Program. It contains sample data and questions a board may wish to ask as part of this process. More Details...