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Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel (RUPRI)

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Provides decision-makers with timely, objective, and expert analysis of the implications of policy for rural health.
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Healthcare Payment · Rural Health Policy

Resources (53)

2024

  • Rural Hospitals' Perspectives On Health System Affiliation, 04/2024, view details

2023

  • Health Panel Comment Letter - 2024 Physician Fee Schedule and Medicare Part B Proposed Rule, 09/2023, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Encouraging Rural Participation in Population-Based Total Cost of Care Models, 10/2023, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – HHS Smoking Cessation Framework 2023, 07/2023, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter - Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System for Acute Care Hospitals Proposed Rule, 06/2023, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter - Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting Proposed Rule, 11/2023, view details
  • State-Based Recommendations to Support Rural Ambulance Agencies, 02/2023, view details

2022

  • The Evolution of Hospital Designations and Payment in the U.S.: Implications for Rural Hospitals, 12/2022, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Access to Coverage and Care in Medicaid & CHIP, 04/2022, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Rural Emergency Hospitals, 09/2022, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Medicare Advantage Program, 08/2022, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements, 09/2022, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Promoting Telehealth in Rural America, 04/2022, view details
  • High-Performing Rural Health System, 01/2022, view details
  • Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Farm Families in Times of Economic Distress, 02/2022, view details

2021

  • Advancing Population Health in Rural Places: Key Lessons and Policy Opportunities, 01/2021, view details
  • Characteristics and Challenges of Rural Ambulance Agencies - A Brief Review and Policy Considerations, 01/2021, view details
  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH), 09/2021, view details

2020

  • Health Panel Comment Letter – Maternal and Infant Health Care in Rural Communities, 05/2020, view details

2019

  • Behavioral Health in Rural America: Challenges and Opportunities, 12/2019, view details

2018

  • Insuring Rural America: Health Insurance Challenges and Opportunities, 07/2018, view details
  • Primary Care: The Foundation for a High Performance Rural Health Care System, 07/2018, view details
  • Taking Stock: Policy Opportunities for Advancing Rural Health, 01/2018, view details

2017

  • Rural Long-Term Services and Supports: A Primer, 11/2017, view details

2015

  • Accountable Care Communities in Rural: Laying the Groundwork in Humboldt County, California, 03/2015, view details

2014

  • Access to Rural Health Care – A Literature Review and New Synthesis, 08/2014, view details
  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Impacts on Rural People, Places, and Providers: A Second Look, 04/2014, view details

2012

  • Anticipating the Rural Impact of Medicare Value-Based Purchasing, 04/2012, view details
  • The Current and Future Role and Impact of Medicaid in Rural Health, 09/2012, view details
  • Pursuing High Performance in Rural Health Care, 01/2012, view details

2011

  • The High Performance Rural Health Care System of the Future, 09/2011, view details
  • Place-Based Policies and Public Health: The Road to Healthy Rural People and Places, 03/2011, view details

2010

  • Designating Health Professional Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Populations/Medically Underserved Areas: A Primer on Basic Issues to Resolve, 08/2010, view details
  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Impacts on Rural People, Places, and Providers: A First Look, 09/2010, view details
  • Securing High Quality Health Care in Rural America: The Impetus for Change in the Affordable Care Act, 12/2010, view details

2009

  • CMS Value-Based Purchasing Program and Critical Access Hospitals, 01/2009, view details
  • Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Covered Persons as Amended, 12/2009, view details
  • A Rural Perspective/Commentary Regarding "Expanding Health Care Coverage to All Americans", 06/2009, view details
  • A Rural Perspective/Commentary Regarding "Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs", 05/2009, view details

2008

  • Implementing a New USDA Rural Development Program Targeting Small Rural Hospitals and Their Communities: Recommendations of the RUPRI Health Panel, 03/2008, view details
  • Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel Response to CMS' Report to Congress: Plan to Implement a Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, 10/2008, view details

2007

  • Bridging Rural Health Research and Policy: Dissemination Strategies, 08/2007, view details
  • Choosing Rural Definitions: Implications for Health Policy, 03/2007, view details
  • Medicare Advantage Plans in Rural America, 10/2007, view details

2006

  • The Institute of Medicine Rural Health Report: Next Steps in Legislation and Programs, 02/2006, view details
  • Medicaid and Its Importance to Rural Health, 05/2006, view details

2005

  • Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act on Rural Health Systems and Beneficiaries, 02/2005, view details

2003

  • An Assessment of Proposals for a Medicare Outpatient Prescription Drug Benefit: The Rural Perspective, 01/2003, view details

2001

  • Comments on the June 2001 Report of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission: Medicare in Rural America, 09/2001, view details
  • Redesigning Medicare: Considerations for Rural Beneficiaries and Health Systems, 05/2001, view details

2000

  • Calculating and Using the Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System, 06/2000, view details
  • Redesigning the Medicare Program: An Opportunity to Improve Rural Health Care Systems?, 08/2000, view details
  • A Report on Enrollment: Rural Medicare Beneficiaries in Medicare+Choice Plans, 03/2000, view details