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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: May 2019
Examines the status of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) and changes from 1998-2017. Includes data on the number of rural SBHCs over time, telehealth-exclusive SBHCs, sponsorship of SBHCs by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), the number in each state, funding sources, populations served, types of healthcare provided, and more.
...telehealth-exclusive SBHCs, sponsorship of SBHCs by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), the number in each...
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. --- Obstacles Persist for Rural Patients to Access Hospice Discusses challenges...
Date: Nov 2020
Examines telemental healthcare delivery in Critical Access Hospital (CAH) emergency departments (ED) in 4 Indiana counties, with a focus on the context surrounding subsequent psychiatric involuntary commitment (IC) or noninvoluntary commitment (non-IC) of mental health patients who presented to the participating EDs. Provides information on patient demographics, ED wait time and length of stay, ED costs and reimbursement, and telehealth parity laws.
...telehealth parity laws. --- An Observational Study of Telemental Care Delivery and the Context for Involuntary...
Date: May 2021
Recording of a May 19, 2021, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on healthcare flexibilities implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic.
...telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic...
Date: Dec 2023
Annual legislative report covering Hawaii State Department of Health program activities and partnerships with Primary Health Care Partners (PHCP). Offers recommendations to address healthcare workforce issues, COVID-19 response, telehealth, and more.
...telehealth, and more. --- Primary Care Legislative Report to the Thirty-Third Legislature: State of Hawaii...
Date: Jan 2021
Explores one provider's observations on the utility of telemedicine in a variety of settings over time in light of COVID-19. Discusses efforts to increase the mobile nature of telehealth services for both the provider and patient. Encourages rural and small town healthcare providers to log all telemedicine encounters.
...telehealth services for both the provider and patient. Encourages rural and small town healthcare providers...
Date: Jul 2022
Webinar on integrating rural nursing concepts into a Texas nursing education program. Includes information on the nurse workforce distribution across Texas, healthcare challenges in rural areas, training nursing students in rural areas, telehealth, "grow your own" strategies, and more. See video description for transcript.
...telehealth, "grow your own" strategies, and more. See video description for transcript. --- Integration of Rural...
Date: Dec 2022
Text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328 (December 29, 2022). Section 4113 extends certain COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities, including the ability of Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers to serve as distant site providers, through December 31, 2024. Section 4137 authorizes the extension of a 1% add-on payment for home health services provided in high-utilization rural counties through 2023.
...telehealth flexibilities, including the ability of Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers to serve...
Date: Jul 2018
Presents the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the benefits, challenges, and solutions to rural broadband issues. Features testimony from an Associate Administrator and Chief Nursing Officer at Wallowa Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in Enterprise, Oregon, on the role broadband plays in healthcare access via telehealth to rural and frontier areas.
...telehealth to rural and frontier areas. --- Realizing the Benefits of Rural Broadband: Challenges and Solutions...