CHCF May 9, 2022
Community health centers provide primary and preventive care to millions of Californians, especially those with low incomes.
Community health centers is a broad term referring to community-based health care organizations that deliver comprehensive and culturally competent primary and preventive care services to California’s medically underserved populations without regard to a patient’s ability to pay for care.
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are a specific type of community health center and are paid for the care they provide to Medi-Cal enrollees through prospective payment system reimbursement, a complicated structure...