Health centers: Trends in revenue and grants supported by the Community Health Center Fund : testimony before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, U.S. Senate
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Trends in revenue and grants supported by the Community Health Center Fund: testimony before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, U.S. Senate
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, March 2, 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Financing, Government -- trends Government Regulation Health Facilities -- economics Legislation, Medical Preventive Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence United States United States. Health Resources and Services Administration
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Why GAO did this study. Across the U.S., nearly 1,400 health centers provided care to more than 30 million people in 2021, regardless of their ability to pay. Health centers were established to increase the availability of primary and preventive health services for low-income people living in medically underserved areas. In order to provide these services, health centers rely on revenue from a variety of public and private sources. This revenue includes grants awarded by HRSA through its Health Center Program, including funding available through the CHCF. HRSA began awarding grants funded by the CHCF in fiscal year 2011. In more recent years, health center revenue also included funding made available through COVID-19 supplemental appropriations. This testimony describes the Health Center Program, trends in health centers’ revenues from 2010 through 2017, and the purposes for which CHCF grants were awarded. This testimony is based on GAO-19-496 and selected updates. For the 2019 report, GAO analyzed revenue data reported annually by health centers to HRSA from 2010 through 2017. In addition, GAO reviewed some HRSA data from 2021 to provide selected updates to the data we previously reported.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918627774706676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918627774706676