Rural Health
News by Topic: Hospitals
CMS: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register
Sep 12, 2025 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on the following information collections: 1) Hospital Notices: IM/DND; and 2) CLIA Proficiency Testing (PT). Comments are due by November 12, 2025.
Source: Federal Register
CMS: Medicare Program; Town Hall Meeting on the Fiscal Year 2027 Applications for New Technology Add-On Payments
Federal Register
Sep 10, 2025 - Notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services
(CMS) announcing a virtual town hall meeting to be held on
December 10-11, 2025, to discuss FY 2027 applications for
add-on payments for new medical services and technologies
under the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment
System (IPPS). Information on how to join the meeting will
be posted on the
New Technology website. The deadline to register to
present at the meeting is November 3, 2025. Written
comments and agenda items for discussion at the meeting are
due by November 13, 2025.
Source: Federal Register
Sep 5, 2025 - Documents the transition of Harper County Hospital, located in Buffalo, Oklahoma, to becoming a Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) in 2023, with guidance from the REH Technical Assistance Center.
Source: National Rural Health Association
Sep 2, 2025 - Highlights an initiative in New Mexico providing rural veterans with home visiting services both following emergency department (ED) visits and proactively to prevent ED visits.
Source: VA News
Aug 26, 2025 - Highlights a trip by Federal Communications Commission officials to Alaska to discuss broadband expansion in remote areas, including to support rural healthcare.
Source: Federal Communications Commission