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1538 webpages matched your search. Here are matches 731 - 740:

731. The Virtual Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH): A Model for Idaho's Rural and Underserved Communities - Resources
Reviewed: Apr 2024

Describes the virtual Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), including benefits such as reduced cost of care and increased access to and quality of care. Discusses how telehealth and community health emergency medical services (CHEMS) will be used in the PCMH model. Includes contact information for Public Health District Small Rural Hospital Improvement (SHIP) Grant Project Managers.

...telehealth and community health emergency medical services (CHEMS) will be used in the PCMH model...

732. MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Prospective Payment System for FY 2024 - Resources
Date: Sep 2023

Comment on the August 7, 2023, Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes discussions on payment rates for Medicare telehealth services; the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including regional adjustments; incorporating Medicare Advantage data into public reporting; and more.

...telehealth services; the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including regional adjustments; incorporating Medicare Advantage data into...

733. Rural and Frontier Mental and Behavioral Health Care: Barriers, Effective Policy Strategies, Best Practices - Resources
Date: 2006

Reports on the mental health and substance abuse needs of people living in rural and frontier areas. Discusses barriers, model programs, policy strategies, and telehealth. Also addresses the role that State Offices of Rural Health and other state and local organizations can play in rural behavioral health service delivery.

...telehealth. Also addresses the role that State Offices of Rural Health and other state and local...

734. Learning From COVID-19-Related Flexibilities: Moving Toward More Person-Centered Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Presents a person-centered framework to facilitate policymakers' decisions regarding the future of COVID-19-related temporary regulatory flexibilities. Identifies priority flexibilities that should be considered for permanence, modification, or further evaluation. Covers regulatory flexibilities regarding telehealth, scope of practice, Medicare Advantage requirements, and more. Includes rural references throughout.

...telehealth, scope of practice, Medicare Advantage requirements, and more. Includes rural references throughout. --- Learning From...

735. Project ECHO: A Model for Complex, Chronic Care in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States - Resources
Date: 2012

Describes Project ECHO, a telehealth program, involving weekly video conferences between rural providers and their colleagues at academic medical centers to discuss patient cases involving a variety of subjects, such as Hepatitis C, chronic pain, integrated addictions, psychiatry, and HIV/AIDS to receive management advice, and access to best practices. Figure 2 shows a map of participating sites and Table 1 lists the numbers of clinics, clinicians, and patients presented.

...telehealth program, involving weekly video conferences between rural providers and their colleagues at academic medical...

736. 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...

737. Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Patient-Centered, Nonphysician Led Self-Monitoring Blood Pressure Program in a Rural Federally Qualified Health Center - Resources
Date: Sep 2024

Evaluated the effectiveness of a self-monitoring blood pressure program (SMBP) involving a nonphysician team for 205 patients with recent hypertension diagnoses in a rural Washington Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Discusses facilitators and barriers to implementation including COVID-19, telehealth, community health workers, working with limited English proficiency populations, reimbursement, and collaborations.

...telehealth, community health workers, working with limited English proficiency populations, reimbursement, and collaborations. --- Evaluating the Effectiveness...

738. Wilson Medical Center Implements Creative Care Alternatives to Address COVID-19 - Resources
Date: Apr 2020

Describes Wilson Medical Center's implementation of curbside and telehealth services in response to COVID-19 in rural Kansas. Offers lessons learned from the transition to alternative solutions and future goals for adapting healthcare services as needed.

...telehealth services in response to COVID-19 in rural Kansas. Offers lessons learned from the transition...

739. Rural Maternal Health Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Feb 7, 2024

Information and resources focused on rural maternal health disparities, issues of access, barriers to rural maternal well-being, and workforce challenges. Highlights strategies, programs, and policies that support rural maternal health.

...Telehealth and Tele-mentoring) look to reduce disparities in behavioral health and substance use care...

740. 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...