Community Health Centers
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Community Health Centers are facing a tighter Medicaid operating environment as CMS under the Trump administration moves to limit Medicaid state-directed payments and related supplemental payment streams beyond hospitals, while states simultaneously prepare to implement H.R. 1 Medicaid work requirements and exemptions for high-risk groups such as homeless individuals. For VBC stakeholders, the strategic issue is that CHCs—major access points for Medicaid, homeless, immigrant, and reentry populations—may see coverage churn and revenue pressure just as they are being asked to anchor population health, behavioral health, and social-risk management; Utah’s homeless exemption underscores the emerging state-by-state variation in how Medicaid rules will affect CHC attribution, continuity, and total-cost-of-care performance (HFMA on CMS SDP rule; NACHC on Utah exemption).
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