Community Health Centers
Seven Ways to Improve Health Center Financial Stability
Health centers are challenged with post-pandemic funding cuts, inflation, and difficulties attracting and retaining top talent amid a competitive hiring market. These factors strain operating budgets, making it necessary to adopt a proactive and strategic financial management approach. AAFCPAs advises that Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) clients evaluate their financial health and operational efficiencies, focusing […]
New UDS+ Reporting Requirements Announced for Health Centers
Health centers have long been required to submit a Uniform Data System (UDS) report to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) by February 15 each year. However, AAFCPAs would like to ensure FQHC clients are aware HRSA introduced a new requirement, the UDS+ filing due by April 30, 2025, for calendar year 2024 data. […]
AAFCPAs Celebrates 2024 National Health Center Week
Each August, National Health Center Week aims to promote awareness of America’s 1,400 Community Health Centers (CHCs), which act as a beacon of strength, service, and care within our communities. Across the country, CHCs support 500,000 direct and indirect jobs, create nearly $85 billion in economic output, and save our nation’s health system billions of […]
Urgent: 2023 Cost Report Submission Deadline for Massachusetts Community Health Centers
AAFCPAs would like to make Massachusetts Community Health Centers aware that the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) has announced it is now collecting cost reports for the fiscal year ending in 2023. Initial communication and instructions indicate 2023 cost reports are due on August 26, 2024, regardless of fiscal year end date. The […]
Grants for Mental Health Centers, Applications Due July 19
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) announced the establishment of time-limited supplemental payments to eligible providers enrolled with MassHealth as mental health centers (MHCs). With a July 19th deadline to apply, AAFCPAs advises that clients not delay. Grant Eligibility Eligibility for […]
$270M in New Funding to Community Health Centers
AAFCPAs would like to make health center clients aware that the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, was signed into law on March 9 and is slated to provide $270 million in new annual funding to community health centers. Backdated to the start of the current fiscal year, this funding brings the program’s total annual funding to […]
Staying Ahead of Healthcare Reimbursement Reforms
As you may know, the nation’s healthcare reimbursement model is pivoting from one that incentivizes the number of visits provided to one that rewards health outcomes of patient populations instead. While some payors have already made this switch, we are seeing a significant trend in the marketplace for public and private payors to shift reimbursement […]
HRSA Announces Changes to Uniform Data System Reporting
AAFCPAs would like to make Federally Qualified Health Center clients aware of recent updates made by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) to the 2023 Uniform Data System (UDS) report, due February 15, 2024. Updates to UDS Reporting HRSA announced changes to how data on Table 6A are now defined including updates to applicable ICD-10-CM […]
AAFCPAs Celebrates 2023 National Health Center Week
AAFCPAs invites you to join us in celebrating National Health Center Week August 6-12, 2023 as we pay tribute to Community Health Centers (CHCs), their staff, and the quality of care they provide. CHCs are an invaluable source of quality health care and support within our communities, serving more than 30 million patients each year. […]