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Date: Mar 2021
Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Includes discussion on Medicare payment policies directly affecting rural providers and beneficiaries. Addresses payment adequacy for healthcare facilities and services, improving Medicare payment for post-acute care, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and the impact of healthcare provider consolidation. Contains information on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medicare beneficiary healthcare access, mortality, and service use. Presents an option for Medicare's coverage of telehealth beyond the public health emergency.
...telehealth beyond the public health emergency. --- MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2021 Annual...
Date: Apr 2024
Summarizes results of a 2024 national survey of 930 Rural Health Clinics. Presents data on the average payer mix, use and attitude toward telehealth services, Medicare Advantage (MA) contract structures, and MA reimbursement relative to traditional Medicare reimbursement, and more.
...telehealth services, Medicare Advantage (MA) contract structures, and MA reimbursement relative to traditional Medicare reimbursement...
Date: Jun 2025
Highlights examples of the best practices in rural oral healthcare across the country. Presents a number of models regarding workforce development and training, integration of care, telehealth, clinical care, and policy.
...telehealth, clinical care, and policy. --- Compendium of Rural Oral Health Best Practices - 2025 Highlights examples...
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 2024
Analyzes data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System between 2016 and 2018 to compare rural and urban differences in prepregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum healthcare access and quality for 103,425 patients in 40 states, New York City, and Puerto Rico. Includes a rural and urban break down of patient demographics, insurance status, and chronic conditions. Discusses the role telehealth may play in closing gaps in care.
...telehealth may play in closing gaps in care. --- Disparities in Maternal Health Visits Between Rural...
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...
Date: Sep 2023
Examines changes in healthcare service use by people with diabetes over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing 2018-2021 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiary data. Includes rural versus urban comparisons of month-by-month and year-by-year changes in usage of telehealth and inpatient services.
...telehealth and inpatient services. --- Changes in Healthcare Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes 2 Years...
Date: Oct 2020
Comment on an August 17, 2020 Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes a discussion of COVID-19-related telehealth expansion.
...telehealth expansion. --- MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule and Other...
Date: Jan 2024
Video featuring a program that places health liaisons in libraries throughout South Carolina to provide residents with services that include health information, telehealth, reproductive and behavioral health, assistance with social needs, and connections with providers.
...telehealth, reproductive and behavioral health, assistance with social needs, and connections with providers. --- The Rural...
Date: 2019
Describes current literature on rural challenges and opportunities, including cardiovascular risk due to obesity, lack of access to healthcare, workforce shortages, importance of paramedics and community health workers, telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders understand the causes of health disparities and to support action to improve the health of rural communities.
...telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders...