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621. Systematic Review of Palliative Care in the Rural Setting - Resources
Date: Oct 2015

Synthesizes the results of an extensive search of the medical literature focused on the developments in palliative care for patients living in rural areas in the U.S. and internationally to determine where gaps in the research may occur. Suggests promising approaches including telehealth, community-academic partnerships, and training for rural healthcare providers.

...telehealth, community-academic partnerships, and training for rural healthcare providers. --- Systematic Review of Palliative Care...

622. Access and Quality of Mental Health Services in Rural and Urban America - Resources
Date: Jul 2025

Research brief documenting recent trends in mental healthcare access and quality in urban and rural communities. Features state-level maps showing locations of mental health facilities, a county-level map with shadings showing driving distances to any mental health facility or access to telehealth, and statistics on ZIP code area demographics, with breakdowns by urban, large rural, and small rural area.

...telehealth, and statistics on ZIP code area demographics, with breakdowns by urban, large rural, and small...

623. Telemedicine Increases Access to Buprenorphine Initiation During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Resources
Date: May 2021

Discusses the expanded access to buprenorphine prescription through telemedicine during COVID-19, comparing the experiences of two harm reduction primary care programs in a rural and urban region of New York. Discusses reduced barriers to treatment, particularly delays due to in-person evaluation requirements before to the pandemic, and innovations to opioid use disorder treatment made possible through telehealth.

...telehealth. --- Telemedicine Increases Access to Buprenorphine Initiation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Discusses the expanded...

624. 5 Strategies Rural Hospitals Are Using to Bolster Their Workforce - Resources
Date: Mar 2019

Provides examples from rural hospitals and health systems of how they are addressing workforce development and planning. Highlights Rural Training Tracks (RTT), grow your own programs, telehealth, behavioral health integration, and care teams including nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

...telehealth, behavioral health integration, and care teams including nurse practitioners and physician assistants. --- 5 Strategies...

625. Medicare Telemedicine Snapshot - Resources
Date: Dec 2021

Presents data on telemedicine utilization by Medicare beneficiaries from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021, including pre- and post-pandemic rates of accessing telehealth services, trends in e-visits and virtual check-ins, geographic breakdowns including rural and urban residence, and beneficiary characteristics. Uses data from Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims, Medicare Advantage (MA) encounters, and Medicare enrollment.

...telehealth services, trends in e-visits and virtual check-ins, geographic breakdowns including rural and urban...

626. Sanford Health Makes Transformation a Rural Priority - News
Date: Feb 3, 2026

Discusses the rural-focused work at a primarily rural health system. Highlights the use of telehealth and artificial intelligence to tackle common rural health challenges. Source: Health Leaders Media.

...telehealth and artificial intelligence to tackle common rural health challenges. Source: Health Leaders Media. --- Sanford...

627. Transforming Health Care from the Ground Up - Resources
Date: 2018

Describes two examples of innovation driven by doctors, nurses, administrators, entrepreneurs, and patients involving a major transformation of healthcare delivery. One example was an initiative developed through the University of Mississippi Medical Center where a telehealth network was created to increase patient access to care in rural areas with a focus on Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).

...telehealth network was created to increase patient access to care in rural areas with a focus...

628. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2023 - Resources
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...

629. CMS Rural Health Strategy - Resources
Date: 2018

Identifies five objectives CMS focuses on to support high quality healthcare in rural communities: applying a rural lens to CMS programs and policies, improving access through provider engagement, telehealth, patient empowerment, and leveraging partnerships. Identifies key activities to address each of the objectives.

...telehealth, patient empowerment, and leveraging partnerships. Identifies key activities to address each of the objectives...

630. Cost Effectiveness of On-site versus Off-site Depression Collaborative Care in Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers - Resources
Date: May 2015

Highlights a study on the cost-effectiveness of on-site versus a telehealth-based collaborative care when treating depression in a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Considers variable, fixed, inpatient, and outpatient costs, among others.

...telehealth-based collaborative care when treating depression in a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC...