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Date: Sep 2021
Discusses challenges to delivering hospice care in rural areas. Highlights changes to allow providers at Rural Health Centers and Federal Qualified Health Centers to serve as attending physicians for hospice patients. Explores the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of hospice services, including the use of telehealth services and workforce concerns.
...telehealth services and workforce concerns. --- View more Obstacles Persist for Rural Patients to Access Hospice...
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...
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...
Date: Mar 2023
Recording of a March 29, 2023, House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies regarding challenges rural communities face. Discussions include access to healthcare; rural workforce development, including the healthcare workforce; telehealth; and more.
...telehealth; and more. --- View more Oversight Hearing – Addressing the Challenges of Rural America Link View...
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...
Date: Apr 2022
Letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responding to a request for information on access to coverage and care in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Discusses strategies related to enrolling in and maintaining coverage, accessing services, and ensuring adequate payment rates. Includes information on physical and behavioral health integration, substance use disorder treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, telehealth, and more.
...telehealth, and more. --- View more MACPAC Response to CMS Request for Information on Access and Coverage...
Date: May 2014
Examines access to stroke care for veterans who are age 65 and older and focuses on veterans' travel time to receive stroke care. Discusses improving access to care by building relationships with community partners and using telehealth equipment for stroke care.
...telehealth equipment for stroke care. --- View more Using GIS to Plan Specialty Health Services for Veterans...
Date: 2025
Examines the relationship between provider-to-provider emergency department-based telehealth consultation (tele-ED) and the prevalence of sepsis in counties with elevated social vulnerability index (SVI) scores. Analyzes 2016-2019 data from 1191 patients treated in rural, Midwestern EDs, with breakdowns according to patient, provider, hospital, and county characteristics. Discusses the relationship between SVI scores and tele-ED use.
...telehealth consultation (tele-ED) and the prevalence of sepsis in counties with elevated social vulnerability...
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...
Information for rural providers on Medicare's Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs) to review a patient’s medical and social history and provide counseling about preventive services.
...telehealth. G0439: AWV, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (PPS), subsequent visit. May be provided...