Environmental Scan on Encouraging Rural Participation in Population-Based TCOC Models

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Presents results of an environmental scan regarding population-based total cost of care (PB-TCOC) payment models and encouraging rural participation in these models. Describes challenges affecting rural patients and providers; opportunities for alternative payment models (APMs) and PB-TCOC models to address challenges in rural areas; trends in rural providers' participation in APMs; driving care delivery transformation in rural providers, including models that include or target rural participants in their model designs; leveraging financial incentives to improve rural health care; adoption and use of health information technology, including telehealth and data analytics among rural providers; and the measurement of rural providers' performance in APMs.

09/2023

HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, NORC at the University of Chicago

Health information technology · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare facilities · Medicaid · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Service delivery models · Statistics and data