Community Health Centers News and Resources for Healthcare

Community Health Centers Seek Enrollment Support Amid Medicaid Redeterminations

April 5, 2023 - Community health centers serve the communities that are most likely to experience widespread coverage loss once Medicaid redeterminations are underway and they are looking for help in maintaining coverage in their patient populations, a survey from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) determined. “Patients who lose...

CareFirst Distributes $1.76M to Address Diabetes Epidemic, SDOH

February 15, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has awarded $1.76 million to local health organizations to help address the diabetes epidemic and the social determinants of health that drive the chronic...

Payers Fund Community Health Centers to Aid Population Health

April 01, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

By directing funds towards health centers that serve vulnerable communities, payers can reinforce population health management strategies in those areas, as exemplified in CareSource’s recent...

Addressing Social Determinants of Health Requires Population-Based Data

June 08, 2020 by Emily Sokol, MPH

At Community Health Plan of Washington, population health management tools allow the organization to integrate social determinants of health data across its network of community health...

UnitedHealth Gives $5M to Support Healthcare Workers During COVID-19

April 21, 2020 by Jessica Kent

The United Health Foundation is partnering with the CDC Foundation, Direct Relief, and the American Nurses Foundation to support the nation’s healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. For...

How Major Payers Provide Substance Abuse Care for Opioid Misuse

June 17, 2019 by Kelsey Waddill

Since the Health and Human Services announced a national state of emergency regarding the opioid epidemic in 2017, the need to improve both initial responses and follow up substance abuse care...