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451. Breaking the Barriers to Specialty Care: Practical Ideas to Improve Health Equity and Reduce Cost
Date: Jun 2016

Collection of briefs focused on how to improve access to specialty care for rural and low-income patients. Discusses telehealth, developing primary care capacity to provide appropriate specialty care, and coordinated specialist networks as approaches to improve specialty care access. Free, but registration required to download.

...telehealth, developing primary care capacity to provide appropriate specialty care, and coordinated specialist networks as approaches...

452. Integration of Rural Nursing in the Curriculum: A Strategy to Increase Nursing Education's Contribution to Population Health
Date: Jul 2022

Webinar on integrating rural nursing concepts into a Texas nursing education program. Includes information on the nurse workforce distribution across Texas, healthcare challenges in rural areas, training nursing students in rural areas, telehealth, "grow your own" strategies, and more. Transcript for video available by clicking three dots under the video.

...telehealth, "grow your own" strategies, and more. Transcript for video available by clicking three dots...

453. Full Committee Oversight Hearing: "Rural Access: Is VA Meeting All Veterans Where They Live?"
Date: Jan 2024

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.

...telehealth, such as lack of broadband connections and technological literacy of older veterans. Presents testimony...

454. Project ECHO's Complex Care Initiative: Building Capacity to Help "Superutilizers" in Underserved Communities
Date: Aug 2016

Describes a case study from the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) program, which uses telehealth to support primary care clinicians in underserved areas. Focuses on a project targeting Medicaid beneficiaries with substance abuse and mental health issues, with details on two primary care teams being supported, including one in a rural New Mexico community.

...telehealth to support primary care clinicians in underserved areas. Focuses on a project targeting Medicaid...

455. Access to Maternal Health Care in Rural Communities: A Patient's Personal Story
Date: Jun 2019

Offers a short video featuring a patient's story about accessing maternal healthcare in rural Iowa. Includes the perspective of the obstetrician/gynecologist who provided her care using a combination of telehealth and in-person visits from South Dakota, the closest facility offering the services she needed.

...telehealth and in-person visits from South Dakota, the closest facility offering the services she needed...

456. Rural Broadband in the Time of COVID-19
Date: Apr 2020

April 16, 2020 webinar recording highlights the state of rural broadband and its capacity to handle the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Discusses remote work, distance learning, telehealth, the CARES Act, and the pandemic in tribal communities. Webinar is presented in two parts.

...telehealth, the CARES Act, and the pandemic in tribal communities. Webinar is presented in two parts...

457. Comparison of In-Person vs. Telebehavioral Health Outcomes from Rural Populations Across America
Date: Dec 2022

Examines the efficacy of 2 federal behavioral health grant programs in reducing depression and anxiety in patients, comparing telehealth and in-person modalities in rural areas. Analyzes data from 1,514 patients participating in grant programs between 2017 and 2021 and their associated behavioral health modality. Includes demographic breakdowns by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and insurance status.

...telehealth and in-person modalities in rural areas. Analyzes data from 1,514 patients participating...

458. Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America
Date: Sep 2021

Examines regional partnerships to build rural access to maternity care through hub-and-spoke models of education and support from urban healthcare organizations to rural maternity providers, investments in telehealth, and remote monitoring systems. Discusses barriers to maternity care access in rural areas and highlights local examples of maternal health provider networks, investments in the rural maternity workforce, and policy implications of developing rural maternity care.

...telehealth, and remote monitoring systems. Discusses barriers to maternity care access in rural areas and highlights...

459. South Dakota's Regional Services Designation Ambulance System Study
Date: Nov 2023

Report offering analysis of stakeholder interviews and performance data of emergency medical service (EMS) in rural South Dakota. Discusses recruitment and retention of workforce, volunteerism, training, data analysis, telehealth, access, and more. Offers recommendations based on key findings and a timeline for implementation.

...telehealth, access, and more. Offers recommendations based on key findings and a timeline for implementation...

460. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2023
Date: Jun 2023

Evaluates Medicare payment issues and provides recommendations to the U.S. Congress. Chapter 7 presents a report on the use, payment, and quality of telehealth services that Medicare pays for separately under the physician fee schedule (PFS). Also includes chapters on the cost of drugs covered under Medicare Part B, postsale rebates for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D, standardized benefits in Medicare Advantage plans, future directions for Medicare Advantage payment policy, disparities in outcomes for beneficiaries with different social risks, Medicare behavioral health services, the alignment of fee-for-service payment rates across ambulatory settings, and the evaluation of a post-acute care prospective payment system prototype.

...telehealth services that Medicare pays for separately under the physician fee schedule (PFS). Also includes...