The Effect of National Health Service Corps Clinician Staffing on Medical and Behavioral Health Care Costs in Community Health Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prior studies of community health centers (CHCs) have found that clinicians supported by the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) provide a comparable number of primary care visits per full-time clinician as non-NHSC clinicians and provide more behavioral health care visits per clinician than non-NHSC clinicians. This present study extends prior research by examining the contribution of NHSC and non-NHSC clinicians to medical and behavioral health costs per visit.

Methods

Using 2013-2017 data from 1022 federally qualified health centers merged with the NHSC participant data, we constructed multivariate linear regression models with health center and year fixed effects to examine the marginal effect of each additional NHSC and non-NHSC staff full-time equivalent (FT

SUBMITTER: Han X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8428858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature