Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Healthcare business and finance
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011
Analyzes data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage collected through the 2012 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) for U.S. residents. Includes metropolitan and outside metropolitan comparisons.
Author(s): Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette Proctor, Jessica Smith
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
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Analyzes data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage collected through the 2012 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) for U.S. residents. Includes metropolitan and outside metropolitan comparisons.
Author(s): Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette Proctor, Jessica Smith
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
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Wireline Competition Bureau Evaluation of Rural Health Care Pilot Program: Staff Report
Discusses the Rural Health Care Pilot Program which has helped healthcare providers obtain broadband capability to implement telemedicine and telehealth applications.
Date: 08/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Communications Commission
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Discusses the Rural Health Care Pilot Program which has helped healthcare providers obtain broadband capability to implement telemedicine and telehealth applications.
Date: 08/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Communications Commission
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Electronic Health Records: Number and Characteristics of Providers Awarded Medicare Incentive Payments for 2011
Reports on Medicare electronic health record incentive payments for 2011 to hospitals and healthcare providers. Compares incentive payments by geographic location including rural/urban breakdowns, hospital type including Critical Access Hospitals, and healthcare provider specialty.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 07/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Reports on Medicare electronic health record incentive payments for 2011 to hospitals and healthcare providers. Compares incentive payments by geographic location including rural/urban breakdowns, hospital type including Critical Access Hospitals, and healthcare provider specialty.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 07/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Independently Owned Pharmacy Closures in Rural America (2012)
Examines the closure of independently owned rural pharmacies in America from 2003-2011 and its effects on rural Americans' access to medications and other pharmacy services. Discusses rural pharmacy rates of closure before and after implementation of the Medicare prescription drug discount card program in January 2004 and the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit program in January 2006.
Author(s): Kaitlin Boyle, Fred Ullrich, Keith Mueller
Date: 07/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Examines the closure of independently owned rural pharmacies in America from 2003-2011 and its effects on rural Americans' access to medications and other pharmacy services. Discusses rural pharmacy rates of closure before and after implementation of the Medicare prescription drug discount card program in January 2004 and the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit program in January 2006.
Author(s): Kaitlin Boyle, Fred Ullrich, Keith Mueller
Date: 07/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
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Preparing for a Public Sector Mental Health Reform in New Mexico: The Experience of Agencies Serving Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Reports on the differences in characteristics, infrastructure, and financial status of mental health services available in New Mexico. Examines the experience of rural provider agencies and compares rural and urban agencies.
Author(s): Rafael M. Semansky, Dominic Hodgkin, Cathleen E. Willging
Citation: Community Mental Health Journal, 48(3), 264-269
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
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Reports on the differences in characteristics, infrastructure, and financial status of mental health services available in New Mexico. Examines the experience of rural provider agencies and compares rural and urban agencies.
Author(s): Rafael M. Semansky, Dominic Hodgkin, Cathleen E. Willging
Citation: Community Mental Health Journal, 48(3), 264-269
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
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Critical Access Hospital 2012 Financial Leadership Summit Summary
Summarizes key discussions from a two-day event focusing on Critical Access Hospital (CAH) financial performance and indicators. Provides financial resources relevant to state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program personnel, CAH administrators, and CAH board members.
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Technical Assistance and Services Center
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Summarizes key discussions from a two-day event focusing on Critical Access Hospital (CAH) financial performance and indicators. Provides financial resources relevant to state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program personnel, CAH administrators, and CAH board members.
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: National Rural Health Resource Center, Technical Assistance and Services Center
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Rural Implications of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
One of a series of policy briefs that focus on the rural implications of key provisions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Includes policy recommendations that will be sent to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
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One of a series of policy briefs that focus on the rural implications of key provisions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Includes policy recommendations that will be sent to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
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Serving Rural Medicare Beneficiaries
Chapter five of MedPAC's Report to Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System. Covers rural Medicare beneficiaries, access to health services, rural vs urban coverage of care, health care quality in rural areas, and rural payment adjustments.
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Chapter five of MedPAC's Report to Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System. Covers rural Medicare beneficiaries, access to health services, rural vs urban coverage of care, health care quality in rural areas, and rural payment adjustments.
Date: 06/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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The Rural Implications of Geographic Rating of Health Insurance Premiums
Examines how and to what extent states allow health plans to vary premiums by geographic rating area. Discusses strategies that federal and state policymakers might use to help ensure that premium variations based on geography (like rural vs. urban) are justified.
Author(s): Andrew Coburn, Erika Ziller, Zach Croll, Elizabeth Kilbreth
Date: 05/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: State Health Access Reform Evaluation
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Examines how and to what extent states allow health plans to vary premiums by geographic rating area. Discusses strategies that federal and state policymakers might use to help ensure that premium variations based on geography (like rural vs. urban) are justified.
Author(s): Andrew Coburn, Erika Ziller, Zach Croll, Elizabeth Kilbreth
Date: 05/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: State Health Access Reform Evaluation
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Frontier Extended Stay Clinic Evaluation
Summarizes results of a performance evaluation of Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) participating sites in Alaska and Washington. Discusses FESC staffing, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy investments in the program, financing, service utilization, business model and practices, cost savings, and other program impacts. Highlights FESC program and research challenges, as well as policy recommendations to strengthen the program.
Author(s): A. Clinton MacKinney, Keith J. Mueller, Fred Ullrich, Eric Shell
Date: 04/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
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Summarizes results of a performance evaluation of Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) participating sites in Alaska and Washington. Discusses FESC staffing, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy investments in the program, financing, service utilization, business model and practices, cost savings, and other program impacts. Highlights FESC program and research challenges, as well as policy recommendations to strengthen the program.
Author(s): A. Clinton MacKinney, Keith J. Mueller, Fred Ullrich, Eric Shell
Date: 04/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Policy Research Institute
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