Open AccessThe Effect of National Health Service Corps Clinician Staffing on Medical and Behavioral Health Care Costs in Community Health Centers
Author(s) -
Xinxin Han,
Patricia Pittman,
Leighton Ku
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001610
Subject(s) - staffing , health care , community health , health services , medicine , service (business) , nursing , family medicine , gerontology , environmental health , public health , business , political science , population , marketing , law
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.