Community health center clinic — compliance support for FQHCs and RHCs
Case File · No. 0X / IXOpen
Healthcare Provider

FQHCs & RHCs

FQHCs, RHCs & community organizations · operational site visits, grant compliance

OSV findings stick. We make sure yours don't.

Safety-net providers under HRSA, 340B, and Section 330 scrutiny.

The engagement

What you receive

OSV-ready documentation; a current Compliance-Manual gap assessment; resolved findings; and a defensible compliance and billing posture.

What working with us looks like

Week 1 — intake: OSV and Compliance-Manual posture, and exposure. Weeks 2–4 — documentation and grant-compliance review against the 2025 manual. Ongoing — OSV readiness and audit response.

Regulatory context

The rules this record is tested against.

Community health centers face a refreshed oversight regime. HRSA published a new Health Center Program Compliance Manual in October 2025 — the first overhaul since 2018 — and updated the Site Visit Protocol in November 2025, changing what an operational site visit tests. The federal Single Audit threshold rose to $1 million, and the Section 504 accessible-medical-equipment compliance deadline was extended to May 11, 2027 by an HHS interim final rule. On top of grant compliance, the same payer reviews every provider faces still apply.

Related disciplines

Where this work lives.

03 · How we work across your arena

Six cross-cutting capabilities.

From revenue cycle through audit defense — each shaped to your operation.

The cross-cutting capabilities we bring to safety-net providers:

  1. Revenue Cycle Management. Encounter billing optimization, all-inclusive rate work, sliding-fee accounting, payer-specific FQHC / RHC billing.
  2. Credentialing & Enrollment. NHSC scholarship and loan repayment, J-1 visa providers, standard credentialing for safety-net staff.
  3. Survey & Regulatory Support. HRSA Operational Site Visit (OSV) readiness, condition follow-up, accreditation, 340B recertification.
  4. FWA Investigation Support. UDS data integrity audit, 340B duplicate discount review, grant compliance investigations.
  5. Compliance & Utilization Reviews. Section 330 grant compliance, sliding fee scale policy, governance documentation, performance reporting.
  6. Program Eligibility & Enrollment. HRSA designation, FQHC / RHC certification, Medicaid MCO contracting.
04 · How we help

Paired to what you're facing.

Each service shaped to the specific pressure observed.

Full-service, tuned for community health:

  1. Start-up & enrollment. Program enrollment, credentialing, payer contracting.
  2. Operational site visit & grant compliance. OSV readiness, Health Center Program compliance, Single Audit support.
  3. Compliance & accreditation. Documentation review, QAPI, accreditation, EMR/EHR implementation.
  4. Revenue cycle. Coding, revenue cycle management, collections and recovery, utilization review.
  5. Audit defense. Payer-audit response, ADR/RAC/UPIC, appeals through the ALJ level.
  6. Investigations & expert support. Licensed investigations, CFE-led fraud examination, and experienced trial experts.
08 · Why choose us

Three reasons the engagements come to us.

Three reasons FQHCs and RHCs choose us:

We have sat through HRSA OSVs. We know what the reviewer actually examines and what they don't. The prep is targeted, not theatrical.

340B without finance-vs-compliance silos. We build covered-entity oversight that lives across the entity, not in one department's binder.

Safety-net billing nuance, not transferred outpatient logic. Encounter billing, all-inclusive rate, NHSC scholarship — the patterns matter.

09 · Frequently asked

The questions buyers actually ask.

What changed with the HRSA Compliance Manual?

It’s the first major revision since 2018 (Oct 2025), with an updated Site Visit Protocol (Nov 2025) — so prior OSV preparation may be out of date.

What’s the Section 504 deadline?

Accessible-medical-equipment compliance was extended to May 11, 2027 by an HHS interim final rule — use the extra year to actually close the gaps.

Do payer audits still apply to us?

Yes — grant compliance is on top of, not instead of, the Medicare and Medicaid review every provider faces.

Are you a law firm?

No. We’re expert consultants and licensed investigators fluent in both grant compliance and payer review — the two regimes you answer to at once. We work alongside your counsel and can serve as experts. Nothing here is legal advice.

10 · Open the case

Ready to work your case the way courts work theirs?

Tell us what you are up against. Scoping memo in week one, before any meaningful commitment.