Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Policy
Full Committee Oversight Hearing: "Rural Access: Is VA Meeting All Veterans Where They Live?"
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs full committee oversight hearing discusses rural veteran's access to healthcare through the VA. Features a discussion of the VA's role as both a healthcare provider and a payer via its Community Care Program. Highlights technological challenges related to telehealth, such as lack of broadband connections and technological literacy of older veterans. Presents testimony from the VA, the Government Accountability Office, the Navajo Nation, and veteran advocacy groups, among others.
Additional links: Witnesses' Testimonies
Date: 01/2024
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs full committee oversight hearing discusses rural veteran's access to healthcare through the VA. Features a discussion of the VA's role as both a healthcare provider and a payer via its Community Care Program. Highlights technological challenges related to telehealth, such as lack of broadband connections and technological literacy of older veterans. Presents testimony from the VA, the Government Accountability Office, the Navajo Nation, and veteran advocacy groups, among others.
Additional links: Witnesses' Testimonies
Date: 01/2024
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Improve Transparency in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program
Examines the Department of Transportation (DOT)'s processes to solicit, evaluate, and select applications for Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant awards in fiscal year (FY) 2022, and the extent to which DOT's evaluation and selection processes aligned with federal guidance. Includes information about the Rural Surface Transportation program, which receives INFRA funding, and statistics on number of INFRA grant awards in FYs 2016–2022, with breakdowns by urban and rural areas.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Examines the Department of Transportation (DOT)'s processes to solicit, evaluate, and select applications for Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant awards in fiscal year (FY) 2022, and the extent to which DOT's evaluation and selection processes aligned with federal guidance. Includes information about the Rural Surface Transportation program, which receives INFRA funding, and statistics on number of INFRA grant awards in FYs 2016–2022, with breakdowns by urban and rural areas.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Housing Assistance Council: 2024 Rural Housing Priorities Executive Summary
Provides an overview of the Housing Assistance Council's (HAC) 2024 policy priorities related to rural housing, such as building capacity, expanding affordability and access to lending, improving quality, utilizing federal programs, and more.
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
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Provides an overview of the Housing Assistance Council's (HAC) 2024 policy priorities related to rural housing, such as building capacity, expanding affordability and access to lending, improving quality, utilizing federal programs, and more.
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
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VA Health Care: Office of Rural Health Efforts and Recommendations for Improvement
Presents an evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health (ORH). Discusses the methods the ORH uses to improve healthcare quality and access for rural veterans, such as initiatives to expand VHA services to rural veterans and funding research to improve the healthcare quality in rural areas. Evaluates the ORH's efforts and makes recommendations for improvement.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Presents an evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health (ORH). Discusses the methods the ORH uses to improve healthcare quality and access for rural veterans, such as initiatives to expand VHA services to rural veterans and funding research to improve the healthcare quality in rural areas. Evaluates the ORH's efforts and makes recommendations for improvement.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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"Patiently Waiting": How Do Non-Driving Disabled Adults Get Around in Rural America?
Interviews 33 non-driving disabled rural adults to learn how they move throughout their communities. Discusses the challenges of utilizing public transportation and their own social networks in a rural context. Offers policy recommendations considerations for rural inequities.
Author(s): Andrew Myers, Krys Standley
Citation: Transport Policy, 145, 55-64
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
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Interviews 33 non-driving disabled rural adults to learn how they move throughout their communities. Discusses the challenges of utilizing public transportation and their own social networks in a rural context. Offers policy recommendations considerations for rural inequities.
Author(s): Andrew Myers, Krys Standley
Citation: Transport Policy, 145, 55-64
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
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Medicare Claims Processing Manual Chapter 4 - Part B Hospital (Including Inpatient Hospital Part B and OPPS)
Outlines rules and regulations for processing Medicare Part B hospital claims. Covers special rules for Critical Access Hospital outpatient billing, hospital-based Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) billing for non-RHC/FQHC services, and payment adjustments for Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs).
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Outlines rules and regulations for processing Medicare Part B hospital claims. Covers special rules for Critical Access Hospital outpatient billing, hospital-based Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) billing for non-RHC/FQHC services, and payment adjustments for Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs).
Date: 01/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Advancing Research on Chronic Conditions in Women
Examines gaps in what is known about chronic conditions that affect women differently or are specific to or predominantly impact women. Includes insights specific to underserved rural women. Offers recommendations for a research agenda, one of which is inclusion of rural women in studies.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Committee on a Framework for the Consideration of Chronic Debilitating Conditions in Women
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Examines gaps in what is known about chronic conditions that affect women differently or are specific to or predominantly impact women. Includes insights specific to underserved rural women. Offers recommendations for a research agenda, one of which is inclusion of rural women in studies.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Committee on a Framework for the Consideration of Chronic Debilitating Conditions in Women
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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RPM for FQHCs and RHCs: 10 Things to Consider
Details issues related to remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) in Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Covers reimbursement and billing, implementation, and quality of care.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Southeastern Telehealth Resource Center
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Details issues related to remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) in Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Covers reimbursement and billing, implementation, and quality of care.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Southeastern Telehealth Resource Center
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Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All
Examines racial and ethnic health inequities in health and healthcare, including discussion of enablers and barriers of health equity, changes in healthcare systems over time, approaches to health equity interventions and research, and health equity policy. Mentions rural, tribal, and indigenous populations throughout. Pages 229-233 highlight successful Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and American Indian initiatives and partnerships.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Board on Health Care Services
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Examines racial and ethnic health inequities in health and healthcare, including discussion of enablers and barriers of health equity, changes in healthcare systems over time, approaches to health equity interventions and research, and health equity policy. Mentions rural, tribal, and indigenous populations throughout. Pages 229-233 highlight successful Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and American Indian initiatives and partnerships.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Board on Health Care Services
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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The People's Agenda: Planting the Seeds for a Healthy Tomorrow: CHW/P/R Policy Agenda
Describes policy approaches for growth, equity, and sustainability of California's community health worker, promotora, and community health representative (CHW/P/R) workforce. See pages 11-12 for discussion of increasing recruitment and support for underrepresented health workers, including rural and Native CHW/P/Rs.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Community Health Workers, Promotoras, and Representatives Policy Coalition (CHW/P/R Coalition)
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Describes policy approaches for growth, equity, and sustainability of California's community health worker, promotora, and community health representative (CHW/P/R) workforce. See pages 11-12 for discussion of increasing recruitment and support for underrepresented health workers, including rural and Native CHW/P/Rs.
Date: 2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Community Health Workers, Promotoras, and Representatives Policy Coalition (CHW/P/R Coalition)
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