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Budget Amendments - SB800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Deeds
Funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers

Item 279 #10s

Item 279 #10s

First Year - FY2025 Second Year - FY2026
Health and Human Resources
Department of Health FY2025 $0 FY2026 $4,500,000 GF

Language
Page 348, line 35, strike "$31,479,983" and insert "$35,979,983".

Page 349, after line 56, insert:

"4. Out of this appropriation, $4,500,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided to contract with the Virginia Community Healthcare Association (VHCA). The contract with VHCA shall require that the association use additional funding to enable Federally Qualified Health Centers to continue providing comprehensive medical, dental, maternal, and mental health services to the most vulnerable and uninsured Virginians, primarily in rural and urban settings."



Explanation

(This amendment provides $4.5 million GF the second year to the Virginia Community Healthcare Association (VCHA). VCHA plans to use the additional funding to enable Federally Qualified Health Centers to continue providing comprehensive medical, dental, maternal, and mental health services to the most vulnerable and uninsured Virginians, primarily in rural and urban settings. This increase will stabilize the provision of pharmacy services and pharmaceuticals to over 400,000 patients, of which 57.0 percent have household incomes equal to or below the federal poverty limit.)