(b) Community-based collaborative care networks
(1) Description
A community-based collaborative care network (referred to in this section as a “network”) shall be a consortium of health care providers with a joint governance structure (including providers within a single entity) that provides comprehensive coordinated and integrated health care services (as defined by the Secretary) for low-income populations.
(2) Required inclusionA network shall include the following providers (unless such provider does not exist within the community, declines or refuses to participate, or places unreasonable conditions on their participation):
(B)
All Federally qualified health centers (as defined in section 1395x(aa) of this title [1] located in the community.
(c) Application
(2) Renewal
In subsequent years, based on the performance of grantees, the Secretary may provide renewal grants to prior year grant recipients.
(d) Use of funds
(e) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 340I, formerly § 340H, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10333, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 970; renumbered § 340I, Pub. L. 115–63, title III, § 301(c)(2), Sept. 29, 2017, 131 Stat. 1172.)