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Title: A Profile of Community Health Center Patients: Implications for Policy

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Expanded coverage under the ACA promises health centers new revenues to expand and improve care, and newly insured patients stand to gain greater access to specialists as they join health plans with broader provider networks. In states that do not expand Medicaid, health centers and some 1 million uninsured health center patients will miss out on these improvements. Even as coverage expands, health centers will continue to serve many uninsured people and provide services not covered by insurance. Ongoing grant funding is needed to meet these costs. With expected changes in the health center population as many uninsured adults gain coverage, health centers may begin to strengthen their capacity to manage serious and chronic conditions and to enhance their adult preventive services to keep adults healthy and active.

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Authors: Shin, Peter; Alvarez, Carmen; Sharac, Jessica; Rosenbaum, Sara J; Van Fleet, Amanda; Paradise, Julia; Garfield, Rachel

Publisher: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

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