Rethinking Rurality: Using Hospital Referral Regions to Investigate Rural-Urban Health Outcomes

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Examines the relationship between the proportion of rural population served in each of the 306 hospital referral regions (HRRs) and health outcomes, healthcare spending and utilization, and access to and quality of primary care. Explores whether mortality differences in HRRs are associated with differences in price-adjusted Medicare reimbursements, quality of primary care, and access to primary care.

Lucy Skinner, Sandra Wong, Carrie Colla

BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1312

11/2022

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Access · Elderly population · Health disparities · Healthcare quality · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data