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Congratulations to our friends at Ryan Health and to each of the health centers on achieving Advocacy Center of Excellence status with National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). Thank you for continuously pushing for the support our communities need.

Health center leaders: when did you last reflect on how you managed the Medicaid unwinding process that followed the period of temporarily expanded coverage during the Covid-19 pandemic? Joe Dunn, Chief Policy Officer at National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) recently suggested that looking back at that time could offer some useful insights and practical ideas for how to best move forward in this environment. Specifically, Joe mentions asking yourself: ➡️ What did you do during the massive redetermination process that happened just a few years ago? ➡️ Are there relationships you developed with health plans that you can now revisit? ➡️ Did you forge connections with Medicaid agencies in your state where you can now circle back and begin dialogue about how you can work together - and how you can be an asset for them as they’re struggling, too? ➡️ Are there community based organizations that serve a similar population where we could find ways to share resources? ✨ These are tips that CHC leaders can begin implementing right away. 🔗 Listen to the clip to hear more from Joe and find more resources at https://lnkd.in/eBgAW6_c #Medicaid #Medicaidcuts #CHC #FQHC #communityhealth #healthcenters #bigbeautifulbill #populationhealth

NY health centers: we hope to see you next week in Saratoga Springs at Community Health Care Association of NYS's #CHCANYS 25! Yuvo's Chief Technology Officer Sujata Bajaj, Performance Manager Trenair Royal, MHA, PMP, and SVP Growth and Marketing Adrienne Smith will be there and would love to chat. ✨ Looking forward to leaving with a fresh dose of energy and inspiration that only a room filled with community health leaders can deliver!

The biggest winner when we find strategic ways to collaborate? Our communities. Yuvo Health CEO, Cesar Herrera, shares how health centers can explore collaborative relationships to boost community impact and resilience - particularly in these uncertain times:

Community health centers cannot keep doing more with less. CHCs are receiving less investment at the same time they are delivering an average savings to the healthcare system of 24% per patient compared to other providers. It doesn't compute. Seeing these figures and living through this challenging and uncertain environment does nothing to sway our commitment to health centers. On the contrary, it strengthens every day.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — a time to elevate conversations about prevention, early detection and health equity. At Yuvo, we're proud to support community health centers who are critical in reaching underserved populations. To us, high-quality breast cancer screening is more than a metric — it's essential patient care. That's why we're proud to partner with CHCs to promote breast cancer screening while driving quality improvement in multiple ways: 🎯 Equitable contracting — creating value-based contracts that recognize CHCs’ challenges and create a real opportunity to succeed in measures like Breast Cancer Screening. 🤝 Hands-on guidance — supporting patient outreach, data analysis and local screening events. ✅ Ensuring CHCs get paid for the care they deliver — capturing missed screenings through documentation and quality reporting support. The result? One partner, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, improved its breast cancer screening rate from 57% to 61% in just one year. Additionally, across the Yuvo network, together we achieved a 65% improvement in overall quality performance across all metrics for which full-year data existed in 2022–2023, including Breast Cancer Screening, Colorectal Cancer Screening, Immunizations for Adults, and Postpartum Care. 🔗 Read how Yuvo and CHC partners are driving quality improvement in Breast Cancer Screenings here: https://lnkd.in/eEFKNT3B #BreastCancerAwareness #HealthEquity #ValueBasedCare #CommunityHealth #CHCs #FQHCs #CommunityCare #QualityImprovement

One patient’s story reflects the impact we’re seeing when community health centers have the support and resources they need. Meet Joe (a hypothetical patient). Joe is 47 and managing diabetes. In one year he had 3 ED visits, 2 hospitalizations and multiple disconnected phones. His health center wants to help, but they aren’t alerted to his hospitalizations until weeks later. Delayed data and unmanaged chronic conditions make proactive care nearly impossible. ⚠️ In this familiar scenario, Joe’s health declines and so does the CHC’s quality scores—all due to circumstances beyond their control. It’s a challenge many CHCs face, but one Yuvo helps them tackle with timely data and wraparound support. ✨ Read below how the health center gained timely hospitalization alerts, faster care coordination and patient outreach, access to a full health history before visits, and tools that empower patients to better manage their health. As a result, one year later: ✅ Joe's health is back on track: he has had no hospital visits ✅ Care gaps close and the health center gets credit for the work they do ✅ Risk scores and compensation increase ✅ Quality scores rise ✅ Hospital utilization and costs decrease The best part? Joe’s results aren’t just anecdotal. Across the Yuvo network, CHC partners have seen meaningful reductions in unnecessary utilization, including a 16% drop in overall ED use, a 14% decrease in potentially preventable emergency department (ED) usage, and a 29% reduction in inpatient visits, according to 2023 - 2024 data from our Fidelis VBC arrangement. ✨ ➡️ Read more about how we empower health centers to care for patients like Joe: https://lnkd.in/ezZneFnk #FQHC #CHC #healthcenter #VBC #valuebasedcare #communityhealth #Medicaid

The shortening of the federal Open Enrollment Period (OEP) from 75 to 45 days beginning in 2026 is one of the administrative hurdles set to cost millions of Americans their Medicaid insurance coverage. National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) provides an excellent overview on the implications of this change for health centers in this article: https://lnkd.in/ejQw5QEY 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧? ▪️ CMS projects 725,000 to 1.8 million people could lose coverage due to the shortened window and tougher verification requirements. ▪️Outreach & Enrollment staff—already facing funding cuts—will have less time for the 1:1 appointments many patients rely on to understand their eligibility. ▪️More uninsured patients will likely mean more uncompensated care for CHCs already operating on narrow margins. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐨? ➡️ Begin educating patients now about the new enrollment deadlines and who will be affected. ➡️ Prepare staff with training and materials to navigate stricter verification rules and shortened timelines. ➡️ Seek out opportunities to collaborate with health centers, community-based organizations and other partners to share costs and resources for education and outreach. ➡️ Partner with local and state associations to amplify outreach efforts, especially for immigrant patients who may face sudden coverage losses. Learn more in the article: #Medicaidcuts #Medicaid #healthcenters #FQHCs #CHCs #communityhealth #populationhealth #CMS

It's a frustrating cycle. For years, Community Health Centers have been running on short-term funding through continuing resolutions (CRs). The latest CR, passed in March, is set to expire in less than a week. What does this mean for health centers? Unfortunately, more of the same: more uncertainty, more pressure to do more with less, more difficulty retaining staff—and all while massive cuts loom in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” 💡 It's time to break out of this cycle. A system that consistently undervalues health centers—despite evidence that 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 24% 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭—doesn’t have to define the future. In this article, Yuvo Health CEO Cesar Herrera outlines a path to greater stability through value-based care. Key points to consider: ➡️ Health centers currently capture only a small slice of Medicaid funding (about 3%). There’s a bigger piece of the pie to claim. ➡️ Value-based care works. Aligning payments with outcomes can unlock new revenue streams and give CHCs more control over financial sustainability. ➡️ Health centers are built for this. They provide whole-person, preventive care at lower average costs—exactly the type of care value-based arrangements reward. Business as usual hasn’t worked. It’s time for bolder strategies. Trying something new isn’t the risk—doing nothing is. https://lnkd.in/eaqKAmks #VBC #valuebasedcare #CHC #FQHC #communityhealth #populationhealth #Medicaid #Medicaidcuts #HealthPolicy

🚨 This issue is critically important. Administrative hurdles, paperwork and more frequent reviews for Medicaid coverage are likely to cause 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 to lose their health insurance - not necessarily because they don't qualify, but from misunderstanding a form or deadline, or insufficient submission of paperwork. We all know what happens next: Health centers take on an even greater workload to help their patients retain their access to care. Now is the time to get out ahead of this. We're already hearing health centers discuss several options to help ease the burden, including: ▪️Collaborating with another provider to share the cost of providing a new administrative service. ▪️Partnering more closely with community-based organizations to establish an alert system and workflow to assist patients. ▪️Identifying technology partners who can help with identification and outreach to patients who have a deadline approaching, or are missing necessary paperwork. 💡 We'd love to hear what you think: Do you have other ideas to add to the list? #Medicaid #Medicaidcuts #BBB #OBBB #healthcenter #CHC #FQHC