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Date: Nov 2018
Issue brief describing efforts among local and state leaders to promote community engagement in rural North Carolina and to address shortages of physicians and advanced practitioners. Also examines challenges faced by rural North Carolina hospitals, uses of telemedicine, plans to promote quality care for children and families, and recommendations for the future.
...youth · Community engagement and volunteerism · Families · Health workforce supply and demand · Hospitals · Telehealth · North Carolina...
Date: Jan 2024
Provides an overview of remote monitoring, including evidence-based use cases, coverage and utilization across payers, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of remote monitoring devices, and data security and privacy. Offers policy recommendations regarding ways to improve the use of remote monitoring services, ensure access to these services across populations, and enhance data security and privacy standards. Includes rural references throughout.
...Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Statistics and data · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth...
Date: Jun 2011
Examines the effectiveness of the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model to improve access to specialty care for complex health conditions such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) by training and supporting primary care clinicians who work with underserved populations in rural areas and prisons in New Mexico.
...Access · HIV and AIDS · Health workforce education and training · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth · New Mexico...
Date: Mar 2021
Explores how primary and behavioral healthcare integration can overcome the unmet needs for mental health and substance use services. Discusses barriers to integrated care delivery. Offers policy recommendations to improve the integration of primary and behavioral healthcare services through enhanced payments, training, and technical assistance, and improving access to behavioral health providers for consultation and referral.
...Interprofessional training of the health workforce · Medicare · Policy · Primary care · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...
Date: Jun 2025
Examines financial and operational characteristics of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) from 2020-2023. Explores FQHC growth and expansion, patient and payer mix, revenue and growth mix, staffing and productivity, operational trends, financial performance, and more. Compares data on rural FQHCs to urban and national FQHC data. Requires name, email address, and organization information to download.
...Health workforce · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...
Date: Jan 2018
Examines the state of rural healthcare in seven states - Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming - and uses the findings to determine the impact of existing federal policies, understand ongoing healthcare challenges, and identify opportunities for improvement in rural healthcare access and delivery. Addresses rightsizing healthcare services to fit community needs, creating rural funding mechanisms, building and supporting the primary care physician workforce, and expanding telemedicine services. Analysis is based on interviews with over 90 national thought leaders and key stakeholders.
...payment models · Service delivery models · Telehealth · Iowa · Minnesota · Montana · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · Wyoming...
Date: May 2023
Outlines specific regulatory waivers and Medicare flexibilities for hospice providers issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes information on payments for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. Identifies whether each waiver or flexibility has been terminated, will end at the conclusion of the public health emergency, or has become permanent.
...Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare quality · Hospice and palliative care · Infectious diseases · Legislation and regulations · Telehealth...
Date: Nov 2024
Summarizes Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) activities in fiscal year 2024 to advance health and ensure affordable healthcare for people living in rural, tribal, and geographically isolated communities. Covers 6 priority focus areas: applying a community-informed geographic lens; increasing the collection and use of standardized data; strengthening and supporting healthcare professionals; optimizing medical and communication technology; expanding access to comprehensive healthcare coverage, benefits, and services and supports; and driving innovation and value-based care.
...Reimbursement and payment models · Service delivery models · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Tribal communities...
Date: Nov 2023
Summarizes Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) activities in fiscal year 2023 to advance health equity for people living in rural, tribal, and geographically isolated communities. Covers six priority focus areas: applying a community-informed geographic lens; increasing the collection and use of standardized data; strengthening and supporting healthcare professionals; optimizing medical and communication technology; expanding access to comprehensive healthcare coverage, benefits, and services and supports; and driving innovation and value-based care.
...Reimbursement and payment models · Service delivery models · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Tribal communities...
Date: Jun 2019
Outlines a guide for rural communities to develop crisis response and pre-arrest diversion programs for people with mental health or substance use disorders. Discusses the use of technology to connect law enforcement with behavioral health programs, as well as building off of current programs to address the specific needs of the community.
...Population health · Public health · Substance use and misuse · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth...