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Federally Qualified Health Center A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a reimbursement designation from the Bureau of Primary Health Care and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers, hospitals, and providers willing to provide ...
The United States Public Health Service (USPHS or PHS) is a collection of agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health, containing nine out of the department's twelve operating divisions.
Community health centers, which are sometimes called Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), are government-run clinics that offer free or low-cost services, including prenatal and primary ...
Medicaid is healthcare coverage designed to help lower-income individuals in the U.S. pay for basic healthcare needs, like hospital and doctor visits, pregnancy care, and blood tests.
The Qualified Medicare Benefits (QMB) program can help you pay your Medicare costs. We explain eligibility, income limits, how to enroll, and more.
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) Federally Qualified Health Centers are public and private non-profit health care organizations that meet federally mandated requirements to provide comprehensive and appropriate health care services to medically underserved populations.
The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing American health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques"). It has become the predominant system of delivering and receiving American ...