Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Healthcare needs and services
Medicare Payment Basics: Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities Payment System
Overview of Medicare's payment system for inpatient rehabilitation services in freestanding facilities or within acute care hospitals. Demonstrates how payment rates are adjusted to account for certain facility characteristics, including facilities in rural areas.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Overview of Medicare's payment system for inpatient rehabilitation services in freestanding facilities or within acute care hospitals. Demonstrates how payment rates are adjusted to account for certain facility characteristics, including facilities in rural areas.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Medicare Payment Basics: Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Services Payment System
Overview of Medicare's payment system for inpatient psychiatric services provided in freestanding hospitals or specialized hospital-based units. Demonstrates how payments for these services are adjusted to reflect geographic differences in labor costs, and cost of care by facility and patient characteristics.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Overview of Medicare's payment system for inpatient psychiatric services provided in freestanding hospitals or specialized hospital-based units. Demonstrates how payments for these services are adjusted to reflect geographic differences in labor costs, and cost of care by facility and patient characteristics.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Medicare Payment Basics: Hospice Services Payment System
Overview of the Medicare hospice benefit and Medicare payments to hospice providers. Describes the four levels of care of the hospice prospective payment system and payment rates.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Overview of the Medicare hospice benefit and Medicare payments to hospice providers. Describes the four levels of care of the hospice prospective payment system and payment rates.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Medicare Payment Basics: Home Health Care Services Payment System
Overview of Medicare payments for home health care services. Includes information on rate-setting and payments for quality reporting and performance. Describes the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and the home health resource groups (HHRGs) based on clinical and functional status.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Overview of Medicare payments for home health care services. Includes information on rate-setting and payments for quality reporting and performance. Describes the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and the home health resource groups (HHRGs) based on clinical and functional status.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Medicare Payment Basics: Durable Medical Equipment Payment System
Overview of Medicare payments for medical equipment used to treat beneficiaries at home. Defines durable medical equipment (DME), details the DME fee schedule, and discusses the competitive bidding program (CBP) for DME. Includes information on adjustments to fee schedule payment rates outside of competitive bidding areas (CBAs).
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Overview of Medicare payments for medical equipment used to treat beneficiaries at home. Defines durable medical equipment (DME), details the DME fee schedule, and discusses the competitive bidding program (CBP) for DME. Includes information on adjustments to fee schedule payment rates outside of competitive bidding areas (CBAs).
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Medicare Payment Basics: Ambulance Services Payment System
Provides an overview of Medicare payments for ambulance services. Discusses rural add-on payment policies, geographic categories determining payment rates, super-rural ZIP codes, and ambulance fee schedules.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Provides an overview of Medicare payments for ambulance services. Discusses rural add-on payment policies, geographic categories determining payment rates, super-rural ZIP codes, and ambulance fee schedules.
Date: 10/2024
Sponsoring organization: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Rural Communication Strategies: Disability and the Role of Public Libraries
Discusses the role of libraries to support underresourced populations, rural areas, and people with disabilities. Utilizes survey and interview feedback from rural librarians to examine issues such as networking, sharing information and resources, outreach, accessing community services, and more. Provides suggestions for increasing inclusion, social connectedness, and collaboration between libraries and Centers for Independent Living (CILs).
Author(s): Jeff Gutierrez
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Montana: Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities
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Discusses the role of libraries to support underresourced populations, rural areas, and people with disabilities. Utilizes survey and interview feedback from rural librarians to examine issues such as networking, sharing information and resources, outreach, accessing community services, and more. Provides suggestions for increasing inclusion, social connectedness, and collaboration between libraries and Centers for Independent Living (CILs).
Author(s): Jeff Gutierrez
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Montana: Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities
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2024 Nebraska Rural Poll Research Report: Well-Being
Analyzes 2024 Nebraska Rural Poll results related to how rural Nebraskans perceive their current and future well-being, life satisfaction, personal finances, impact of marital status, feelings of loneliness, and more. Includes survey data and demographic information on survey respondents.
Author(s): Heather Akin, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, Mary Emery, et al.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Analyzes 2024 Nebraska Rural Poll results related to how rural Nebraskans perceive their current and future well-being, life satisfaction, personal finances, impact of marital status, feelings of loneliness, and more. Includes survey data and demographic information on survey respondents.
Author(s): Heather Akin, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, Mary Emery, et al.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Data Watch: Arkansas Roadway Fatalities, 2016-2022
Infographic offering data on traffic fatalities in Arkansas. Includes county-level data on fatalities, noting rural and urban differences.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
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Infographic offering data on traffic fatalities in Arkansas. Includes county-level data on fatalities, noting rural and urban differences.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
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Nebraska - Breaking the Pattern: Driving Initiatives to Safely Transition Patients Across the Care Continuum
Discusses challenges of discharging hospitalized patients in Nebraska to post-acute care. Provides data on patients awaiting discharge, reasons for delay, impact of Medicare advantage, and possible solutions. Includes county-level information on availability of long-term care or assisted living facilities and discusses impact on rural areas.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Nebraska Hospital Association
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Discusses challenges of discharging hospitalized patients in Nebraska to post-acute care. Provides data on patients awaiting discharge, reasons for delay, impact of Medicare advantage, and possible solutions. Includes county-level information on availability of long-term care or assisted living facilities and discusses impact on rural areas.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Nebraska Hospital Association
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