Characteristics of Public vs. Private Federally Qualified Health Centers.

RESULTS There are 97 (7%) FQHCs that are operated by government entities, serving 1.8 million patients and accounting for 5% of federal health center grants. DISCUSSION Public FQHCs serve a higher proportion of uninsured patients while achieving comparable quality on most metrics without differences in grants received or cost compared to private FQHCs. There was no difference in federal grants received per patient ($300 vs. $283, I p i = 0.55) or average cost per patient between public and non-governmental FQHCs ($1,090 vs. $1,159, I p i = 0.37). [Extracted from the article]