Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health

Proposed federal cuts to public health cost more than they save. GW research shows that not only would cuts weaken prevention capacity, but for every $1 cut from CDC funding, state and local economies lose $1.40. Read more about the impacts 👇 accountablehealth.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...

CHCs continue to grow 📈 and depend on Medicaid and federal funding to serve increasing numbers of patients

#communityhealthcenters #CHCs #FQHC #ValueCHCs #Medicaid #federalfunding #infographic

🎈 Medicaid and CHCs both celebrate 60 years in 2025.
Read, How Medicaid Built Community Health Centers And Health Centers Returned The Favor in Health Affairs Forefront: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

❗New Policy Change Reclassifies Community Health Centers Under PRWORA with dire implications❗

📰 Our latest Notes from Washington explains the policy change and potential impact: geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/trump-admini...

💡 In the 1960s, Mound Bayou’s Tufts-Delta Health Center worked with the NAACP and ACLU to tackle health inequities like unsafe water and poor sanitation.

📈 Today, MLPs are transforming care by embedding legal services in health care, with health centers comprising about 1/3 MLPs nationwide.

Helping Patients Navigate Healthier Lives through Legal Interventions: Medical-Legal Partnerships in Community Health Centers | Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health | Milken Institute School of P... This new data note provides an overview of the Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) model, describes its adaptability to a variety of health care settings, and highlights the ways that MLPs advance the hea...

📊 A new data note explores how the MLP model advances health and justice in community health centers: geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/helping-pati...

#communityhealthcenter #chcs #fqhc #ValueCHCs #MedicalLegalPartnership #mlp #healthjustice

📉 Big pending policy changes could mean big financial losses for CHCs
Capital Link’s new Scenario Planning Snapshots show how these changes could impact your state. These are essential tools for planning in this critical moment.
📄 Explore your state's snapshot here: bit.ly/449HU63

Our new analysis finds that proposed Marketplace rollbacks put up to $6 billion in CHC revenue at risk by 2028, and as many as 2.1 million privately insured CHC patients could lose coverage.

14-36% of CHC patients currently privately insured could lose coverage, translating to decreased access to care and devastating losses of health center revenue up to $6 billion by 2028.

#communityhealthcenters #chcs #fqhc #ValueCHCs #privateinsurance #healthpolicy #marketplacecoverage

Up to 2.1 million CHC patients could lose their private insurance under changes to the health insurance Marketplace pending in Congress right now. Lowest income beneficiaries will be hit the hardest, restricting access to healthcare

🚨 2.1 million health center patients' private insurance coverage at risk

Read more about this impact on our latest installment of "Notes From Washington" here: geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/21-million-c...

📉 What Does it Mean for Community Health Centers, their Patients, and Communities to Lose the Post-ACA Gains?

Our new data note shows community health centers (CHCs) could lose 10 million patients, 150,000 staff, and $32 billion in revenue over 5 years.

➡️ Read the data note here: bit.ly/4kayewT

Behind the Estimated National Loss of Coverage for Nearly 5.6 Million CHC Patients, Impact of Medicaid Work Requirements at the State Level | Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health | Milken Institu... A new data note from the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative shows the potential impact of Medicaid work requirements on health center patient coverage at the state l...

Proposed Medicaid work requirements will impact all expansion states, reducing CHC patient coverage due to frequent and potentially complex reporting.

📄 Read the analysis of state impacts below in our new data note.

geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/behind-estim...

Nearly 5.6 Million Community Health Center Patients Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under New Work Requirements, with Revenue Losses Up to $32 Billion Medicaid work requirements could lead to up to 5.6 million community health center patients losing coverage and loss of up to $32 billion in health center revenue.

5.6 million. That's the number of community health center (CHC) patients who could lose Medicaid coverage under proposed work requirements, leading to a potential loss of $32 billion in CHC revenue, as @commonwealthfund.org and @geigergibson.bsky.social explain. bit.ly/3SB7Ukb

#MedicaidMatters

Deep Medicaid Spending Cuts Put Health Care Coverage at Risk for One of Five Enrolled Children

❗ Deep Medicaid Spending Cuts Put Health Care Coverage at Risk for One of Five Enrolled Children ❗

A blog from the Geiger Gibson team, published with @commonwealthfund.org, reveals what the proposed $900 billion in Medicaid cuts could mean for children's insurance coverage.

bit.ly/44YiA3x

How National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Lead to Large-Scale Job Losses, Harm State Economies, and Strain Budgets States could see billions of dollars in reduced economic activity, lower state/local tax revenues, and large job losses if Medicaid work requirements are imposed.

Medicaid work requirements don’t work. That’s the key takeaway from @geigergibson.bsky.social's new report on #Medicaid, which finds that these harmful requirements could result in 5.2M patients losing coverage by 2026, leading to the loss of over 449,000 jobs. #MedicaidMatters

Eligibility Assistance Increases Insurance Enrollment Within Community Health Centers But Not At The State Level | Health Affairs Journal Although ample evidence exists that community health centers lower federal medical expenditures, it has been hypothesized that the eligibility assistance offered by staff at health centers could also increase insurance enrollment and federal costs. We analyzed the effects of eligibility assistance on insurance enrollment at both the health center and state levels. Using multivariate panel analysis with two-way fixed effects, we examined effects of eligibility assistance during the period 2016–23 to determine how insurance enrollment is affected at the health center and state levels. Data sources were administrative data from health centers and state-level enrollment data from Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance Marketplaces. Higher levels of eligibility assistance staffing are associated with modest increases in numbers of Medicaid and CHIP enrollees at health centers and modest reductions in numbers of uninsured patients. However, neither eligibility assistance nor overall health center size significantly affect state-level enrollment for any of the programs. Eligibility assistance modestly increases insurance coverage among health center patients, which improves health centers’ financial status and patient care capacity. But this assistance does not significantly increase overall Medicaid, CHIP, or Marketplace enrollment, nor does it raise federal expenditures.

It has been hypothesized that the eligibility assistance offered by staff at health centers could also increase insurance enrollment and federal costs. What does the evidence say?

💡 The latest article from our team published today explores this hypothesis: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

🚨Just released! Check out the latest analysis of potential Medicaid work requirements from the Geiger Gibson team.

❗ TOMORROW ❗ Attend the first in our latest webinar series on the impact of federal Medicaid cuts at the state level and on medically underserved communities.

Register here: click.gwu.edu/click/g1k9ep...

Read the latest in our Spotlight on History series featuring early examples of community-driven innovation at Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services Center, Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Delta Health Center, Urban. Health Plan, and Yakima Neighborhood Health Services

↗️ Over their 60-year history, community health centers have been more than places of care—they’ve been engines of empowerment.

🔗 www.chcchronicles.org/stories/spot...

#chcs #communityhealthcenter #fqhc #valueCHCs #anniversary #spotlightonhistory #CHCsat60 #empowerment #history

To illuminate the impact of federal Medicaid cuts at the state level and on medically underserved communities, the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health announces a new webinar series for community health centers, health center networks, and state and regional primary care associations.

NEXT WEEK 📅 Mark your calendars for our latest webinar.

Register here: bit.ly/42JDRLB

💡 Medicaid cuts being considered in Congress, approaching $900 billion over a decade, will affect a broad range of communities, populations, and services, including community health centers and their patients

Learn more about the organization by visiting their CHroniCles profile: www.chcchronicles.org/explore/mane...

Does your CHC, or one in your community, have a milestone anniversary coming up? Please let us know at geigergibson@gwu.edu, so that we can feature it!

Anniversary Alert! As part of our CHroniCles feature on CHC anniversaries, highlighting each center's unique founding story and dedicated years of service, today we recognize Manet Community Health celebrating 45+ years of service in 2025!

Read about this milestone anniversary at: bit.ly/42oOtRm

71. Braidwood Management v Becerra Could Eliminate Three Quarters of the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Benefits for Women, Infants, and Children | Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health | Milken... A new policy brief, Braidwood Management v Becerra Could Eliminate Three Quarters of the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Benefits for Women, Infants, and Children, examines a the potential implicatio...

SCOTUS heard oral arguments in the Kennedy vs Braidwood Management case on April 21, 2025 — this case could eliminate three-quarters of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive benefits for women, infants, and children.

Read more in our policy issue brief from June 2023: bit.ly/4lGpKQ3

The ripple effects of these cuts will course through the entire health care system, with severe consequences for patients and systems. Health centers and their patients are especially vulnerable to these cuts.

❗️Food security is under threat as the federal government considers cuts to SNAP and Medicaid❗️

📝 Read the latest issue brief from The GW Milken Institute School of Public Health & @commonwealthfund.org, analyzing the consequences of potential federal budget for #Medicaid & #SNAP here: bit.ly/44zITwT

Today for #ThrowbackThursday we amplify a prior story about the vital role the Migrant Health Program plays in providing care to the nation’s vital migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

📝 Read more here: www.chcchronicles.org/stories/chro...

#CHCs #communityhealthcenters #FQHC #MigrantHealthCenters

Community Health Centers: A Six-Decade Commitment to Nutrition and Health | Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University New data note, Community Health Centers: A Six-Decade Commitment to Nutrition and Health explores health center programs to address food insecurity, support access to healthy foods for people with chr...

📈 CHCs have served as key local health care hubs since their inception in the 1960s - focused on addressing the social drivers of health. Today’s health centers continue to prioritize and support healthy eating and access to nutritious foods through a multitude of creative programs and strategies.