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Reviewed: Jul 2025
Interpretive guidelines clarifying several provisions of the emergency preparedness final rule for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating providers, which affects Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and other rural facilities.
...guidelines clarifying several provisions of the emergency preparedness final rule for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating...
Date: Sep 2023
Provides standardized guidelines for public health officials, veterinarians, animal venue operators and exhibitors, farmers, visitors, and those concerned with minimizing health risks from contact with animals. Describes risks from infections such as enteric diseases, rabies, influenza, and others.
...guidelines for public health officials, veterinarians, animal venue operators and exhibitors, farmers, visitors, and those...
Date: Feb 2021
Policy brief providing an overview of challenges rural communities experience preparing for and mitigating the effects of disasters and public health emergencies. Offers guidelines and recommendations to improve rural preparedness.
...guidelines and recommendations to improve rural preparedness. --- Rural Health Preparedness Policy Brief Policy brief providing...
Date: Jun 2024
Compares rural and urban patterns of use and patient outcomes of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) uptake for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), utilizing 2015-2020 Medicare fee-for-service data. Provides data on rural and urban disparities in receipt of optimal GDMT treatment and mortality.
...guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) uptake for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), utilizing...
Date: Jan 2025
Examines trends in prescription opioid use among Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas, utilizing 2010-2017 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data. Provides data on receipt of opioid prescriptions among community-dwelling and facility-dwelling beneficiaries, associations between prescribing and chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs), and prescriptions exceeding CDC guidelines. Includes rural-urban comparisons.
...guidelines. Includes rural-urban comparisons. --- Opioid Use Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Examines trends in prescription...
Reviewed: Oct 2025
Presents interpretive guidelines clarifying statutory and regulatory requirements for home health agencies.
...guidelines clarifying statutory and regulatory requirements for home health agencies. --- State Operations Manual Appendix B - Guidance...
Date: Aug 2024
Examines likelihood of receiving guideline-concordant care and risk of mortality for Black patients with colon cancer at Commission on Cancer (CoC) accredited hospitals relative to non-CoC accredited hospitals. Utilizes 2019-2020 United States Cancer Statistics database data. Includes data on the association between patient characteristics, including rurality, and attendance at accredited versus nonaccredited hospitals.
...guideline-concordant care and risk of mortality for Black patients with colon cancer at Commission...
Date: Jun 2022
Summarizes a meeting of the Pain Management Guidelines and Evidence Standards (PM) and Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services (PTR) Working Groups of the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. Discusses telehealth flexibilities during the COVID-19 public health emergency, telehealth use for pain management, and telehealth-based treatment of opioid and substance use disorders.
...Guidelines and Evidence Standards (PM) and Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services (PTR) Working Groups of the National...
Date: Dec 2012
Discusses the short-term policy implications of proposed changes to the designation and payment guidelines for small rural hospitals. Focuses on proposed changes to rural Medicare payments for hospitals and physicians, as well as a proposal to change the CAH distance requirements.
...guidelines for small rural hospitals. Focuses on proposed changes to rural Medicare payments for hospitals...
Date: Jan 2022
Profiles St. Charles Madras Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital in Jefferson County, Oregon. Discusses the hospital's efforts to establish cultural competence through the implementation of components of evidence-based guidelines to improve the American Indian and Hispanic or Latino patient experiences.
...guidelines to improve the American Indian and Hispanic or Latino patient experiences. --- Advancing Transcultural Care...