FQHC Hospital Case Study
Contemporary Health Care, Inc.'s textbook case study in hospital FQHC development delineates alternatives and conversion of a hospital outpatient clinic to a new FQHC community-based entity. The step-by-step process describes concept through implementation and includes both short-term and long-term benefits, along with specific FQHC model issues.

Contemporary Health Care, Inc. (CHCI) provides professional technical assistance to rural and urban health care providers including hospitals, physician practices, and governmental entities regarding FQHC and RHC development. Projects that we assist clients in rural and urban areas involve such major issues as health policy, access to health care, alternative health care delivery modeling, finance and reimbursement, and strategic financial planning. Representative services include the following:

Rural Network Development and Planning
From concept to implementation, network development encompassing varied vertical providers and agencies, including hospitals, community health centers, local government, social service agencies, and unique partners for collaborative and grant purposes.

FQHC and FQHC Look-Alike Strategic Planning, Modeling, and Establishment
Strategic and space planning, financial and reimbursement modeling under various federal and state scenarios, feasibility studies, outpatient department/ambulatory care conversion, startup and operations for core and satellite sites.

Telemedicine and Teleradiology Development
Linkage development between remote spoke and hub providers to create access for underserved rural populations along with grant applications, reimbursement strategies, modeling, and operational issues.

Marketplace Assessment
Engagements for governmental entities, providers, and associations - development of comprehensive marketplace assessments whereby demographics, utilization, work force, employment, and other factors/indicators are folded from the smallest unit, i.e. service area, county and build up to larger areas, i.e. region, state

Creative Solutions to Alleviate Practitioner Shortages
From "community need" determination to federal designation formal requests (i.e. HPSA, MUA) including solutions such as federal policy clarification requests to CMS whereby provider 10% bonus payments are garnered, J-1 Visa Waiver/State 30 Program application process, creative incentive arrangements for staffing.

Primary Care Alternative Modeling
Matching the need to the community population's age, sex, race, and other socioeconomic characteristics is key to achieve projected patient volumes, financial viability, and staffing with the proper professionals, i.e. physician or midlevel, internal medicine or pediatrics.

Program and Service Development and Startup through Grants
Whether the client is a hospital, FQHC, or government agency - the need to be proactive versus standing pat through new and creative programs and services that mirror the need, demand, and capacity in communities is our forte through grants from various private and public agencies and the federal government and provision to special population groups, i.e. HIV/AIDS, incarcerated populations, low-income populations, based on our expert grantwriting skills.

Financial and Reimbursement Strategy Development
Impact studies and modeling of federal and state legislation relative to financial viability - current and future - for health care providers including physician and other fee schedules, prospective payment systems, managed care and capitation, cost-based systems, etc.

Federal and State Agency Policy Interpretation/Impact
Determination of what the short-term and long-term implications are based on policy changes, what is needed to occur as a result of these changes, working with providers to implement changes in response to ever-changing maze of regulatory change affecting the health care industry.

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