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Articles on the work behind care.
Three reads on where the hours go, what the funding really looks like, and how earned money slips away before it is collected.
Three articles
about the work behind care.
Where the hours go, what the funding really looks like, and how money a center has already earned gets lost. Scroll to turn the page.
03 articles32 million patients, and no permanent funding.
One in eleven people in the country rely on a community health center. Nine in ten of their patients live at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. The federal money behind it has to be renewed every couple of years.
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Two hours of paperwork for every hour of care.
43 prior authorizations per physician, per week. 5.9 hours a day inside the chart. In a health center that work has nowhere to go but onto people already stretched.
Read · ~4 min32 million patients, and no permanent funding.
One in eleven people in the country rely on a community health center. Nine in ten of their patients live at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. The federal money behind it has to be renewed every couple of years.
Read · ~4 minFive ways a health center loses money it already earned.
Most of the money a health center loses is not money it failed to win. It is money for care already delivered, lost somewhere between the visit and the payment.
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