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621. Rural Community Health Initiative: Compendium of Best Practices - Resources
Date: Jan 2022

Presents a collection of community-based health initiatives, including a school health initiative, a COVID-19 vaccine outreach and education program, and telehealth consortia, among others. Describes successful outcomes and sources of funding for each program.

...telehealth consortia, among others. Describes successful outcomes and sources of funding for each program. --- Rural...

622. Telemedicine vs Telephone Consultations and Medication Prescribing Errors Among Referring Physicians: A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial - Resources
Date: Feb 2024

Compared 696 acutely ill children in 15 community and rural California emergency departments receiving telephone or video consultations to determine differences in physician-related medication errors. Discusses the impact of telehealth on healthcare quality and remote acute care.

...telehealth on healthcare quality and remote acute care. --- Telemedicine vs Telephone Consultations and Medication Prescribing...

623. Assessment of State and Federal Health Policies for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond - Resources
Date: Nov 2021

Examines state-level policy data from government and nonprofit agencies related to treatment access and treatment retention for patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Describes policy changes affecting telehealth coverage, delivery, and payment; issues of licensing and security; and the initiation and dispensing of treatment medications.

...telehealth coverage, delivery, and payment; issues of licensing and security; and the initiation and dispensing...

624. State Medicaid Managed Care and Access to Rural Behavioral Health Services - Resources
Date: May 2022

Details how states with Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are using MCO contract language to increase access to behavioral healthcare through service access requirements, provider network requirements, and telehealth utilization policies. Includes links to available MCO contracts and requests for applications.

...telehealth utilization policies. Includes links to available MCO contracts and requests for applications. --- State Medicaid...

625. 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...

626. Full Committee Oversight Hearing: "Rural Access: Is VA Meeting All Veterans Where They Live?" - Resources
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...

627. Rural Maryland Council Health Care Committee Executive Summary, 2015-2016 - Resources
Date: Dec 2016

Report on the work of the Rural Maryland Health Care Committee for 2015-2016. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, presentation slides, discussion of white papers, correspondence, and focused topics such as telehealth and telepsychiatry. The focus of the committee during this biennium was mental and behavioral health in school age children.

...telehealth and telepsychiatry. The focus of the committee during this biennium was mental and behavioral...

628. An Interim Evaluation Report of the Innovative Projects Portfolio of the Medicare Flex Grant Program - Resources
Date: Jan 2018

Provides background on the Flex Program and the Integration of Innovative Health Care Models (Innovative Projects) program area. Evaluates the impact of the Innovative Projects program area across seven participating states, focusing on activities involving the transition to value-based care, telehealth, care coordination, quality improvement, and system delivery in rural communities. Final implementation results are described in Implementation and Early Results of the Flex Program's Innovative Models Program Area: Final Evaluation Report.

...telehealth, care coordination, quality improvement, and system delivery in rural communities. Final implementation results are described...

629. 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...

630. Medicare Care Management Billing Strategies - RHIhub Webinar - Webinars
Date: May 30, 2025

Medicare Care Management Billing Strategies. A webinar from the Rural Health Information Hub.

...telehealth, we have permanent telehealth coverage for behavioral health. So we've seen a lot. So behavioral...