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551. How Might Internet Connectivity Affect Health Care Access? - Resources
Date: Dec 2020

Describes how a lack of internet access may negatively impact access to healthcare. Features data and statistics on internet access, with information broken down by race/ethnicity, age, poverty level, insurance status and type, and metropolitan/nonmetropolitan location. Discusses COVID-19 and how social distancing measures have led to increased implementation of telehealth, resulting in additional challenges accessing healthcare among people with little to no internet connectivity.

...telehealth, resulting in additional challenges accessing healthcare among people with little to no internet connectivity...

552. A Lack of Behavioral Health Providers in Medicare and Medicaid Impedes Enrollees' Access to Care - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Examines the availability of behavioral health providers who actively serve Medicare or Medicaid enrollees in 20 counties, 10 urban and 10 rural, across 10 states in 2021. Explores the extent to which traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid enrollees received behavioral health services and whether they used telehealth or in-person services. Offers recommendations to encourage more behavioral health providers to serve these enrollees and expand coverage to additional behavioral health provider types. Includes rural and urban comparisons throughout.

...telehealth or in-person services. Offers recommendations to encourage more behavioral health providers to serve...

553. Provider Shortages and Limited Availability of Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico's Medicaid Managed Care - Resources
Date: Sep 2019

Examines the supply and distribution of behavioral health providers and prescribers across New Mexico, with a focus on services available to Medicaid managed care enrollees. Includes data for rural and frontier counties. Discusses rural broadband connectivity challenges that impact the use of telehealth to address access. Offers policy recommendations. Findings are likely to be relevant to behavioral healthcare access in other states' rural and frontier counties.

...telehealth to address access. Offers policy recommendations. Findings are likely to be relevant to behavioral...

554. Project ECHO Nevada - Resources
Reviewed: Dec 2023

Provides training and indirect telehealth consultations to increase health care and public health professionals' capacity to effectively address emerging, common, chronic, and complex conditions in populations throughout Nevada. Connects urban, university-based subject matter experts with health care and public health professionals through regularly scheduled teleconference sessions where professionals can speak directly with specialists to review their challenging patient cases for feedback and recommendations. On Demand Library offers video recordings of training sessions.

...telehealth consultations to increase health care and public health professionals' capacity to effectively address emerging...

555. Home Health Agencies Used Multiple Strategies to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Although Some Challenges Persist - Resources
Date: Oct 2022

Presents results of a survey of home health agencies (HHAs) conducted between September through December 2021 to explore the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discusses challenges related to staffing, infection control, the use of telehealth, and the adequacy of emergency preparedness plans, as well as challenges specific to rural HHAs. Provides recommendations for how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can help HHAs prepare for and respond to current and future infectious disease outbreaks and changes to the home health care landscape.

...telehealth, and the adequacy of emergency preparedness plans, as well as challenges specific to rural...

556. April 2021 MACPAC Meeting Transcript - Resources
Date: Apr 2021

Transcript from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission's (MACPAC) April 2021 meeting. Covers the review of draft chapters and recommendations regarding high-cost specialty drugs, improving integration through dual-eligible special needs plans (D-SNPs), access to mental health services for adults, access to behavioral health services for children and adolescents, electronic health records as a tool for behavioral health services integration, and the non-emergency medical transportation benefit. Also details lessons from states on rebalancing, ensuring quality in Medicaid and CHIP, and what states are learning from the expanded use of telehealth.

...telehealth. --- View more April 2021 MACPAC Meeting Transcript Link View Resource Description Transcript from the Medicaid...

557. Report on Promoting Broadband Internet Access Service for Veterans Pursuant to the Repack Airwaves Yielding Better Access for Users of Modern Services Act of 2018 - Resources
Date: May 2019

Provides an overview of broadband access and broadband adoption for low-income and rural veteran households. Details barriers for veterans accessing broadband and efforts to increase access, such as the Universal Service Fund and Rural Health Care programs. Discusses the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) special focus on providing healthcare services for veterans in rural and remote locations via telehealth. Offers recommendations for Congress regarding broadband access for low-income and rural veterans.

...telehealth. Offers recommendations for Congress regarding broadband access for low-income and rural veterans. --- View...

558. Mental Health America: Rural Mental Health Resources - Resources
Added: Dec 2024

Highlights resources and information on rural mental health and wellbeing. Discusses mental healthcare access, stigma, telehealth, rural isolation and loneliness, and youth mental health in rural communities.

...telehealth, rural isolation and loneliness, and youth mental health in rural communities. --- View more Mental...

559. 47th Annual Arizona Rural Health Conference - Resources
Date: Jun 2021

Offers presentation slides and video recordings from the 2021 Annual Arizona Rural Health Conference. Covers a wide variety of topics including infrastructure needs in rural communities, telehealth and distance learning, prevention efforts to address social determinants of health, and more.

...telehealth and distance learning, prevention efforts to address social determinants of health, and more. --- View...

560. Growing Rural Podcast - Resources
Reviewed: Mar 2024

Podcast series on issues of interest for rural South Carolina. Topics include telehealth, ways to improve access to quality healthcare, employment, education, and the arts, among other things.

...telehealth, ways to improve access to quality healthcare, employment, education, and the arts, among other...