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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Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant - Hawaii: FY 2025 Application/FY 2023 Annual Report
Describes Hawaii's maternal and child health programs, which include priorities related to family planning, food security, rates of child abuse and neglect, health screenings for children, wellness visits and vaccination, mental healthcare, telehealth access, and more. Discusses healthcare access issues for rural residents, activities by the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health, Medicaid provider shortages, and other rural-relevant issues.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Hawaii State Department of Health
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Describes Hawaii's maternal and child health programs, which include priorities related to family planning, food security, rates of child abuse and neglect, health screenings for children, wellness visits and vaccination, mental healthcare, telehealth access, and more. Discusses healthcare access issues for rural residents, activities by the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health, Medicaid provider shortages, and other rural-relevant issues.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Hawaii State Department of Health
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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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Trends of Available PGY-1 Residency Positions and Practicing Physicians in South Carolina, 2004-2023
Data brief describing how the numbers of medical school graduates and entry-level (PGY-1) positions in South Carolina have increased from 2004-2023. Features statistics on cumulative change in PGY-1 positions and physicians from 2009-2021 with breakdowns by urban and rural areas, and a county-level map showing numbers and locations of South Carolina primary care residency programs, with shadings showing urban and rural counties.
Author(s): K. Gaul, A. Chastain-Brown, A. Lefebvre
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium
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Data brief describing how the numbers of medical school graduates and entry-level (PGY-1) positions in South Carolina have increased from 2004-2023. Features statistics on cumulative change in PGY-1 positions and physicians from 2009-2021 with breakdowns by urban and rural areas, and a county-level map showing numbers and locations of South Carolina primary care residency programs, with shadings showing urban and rural counties.
Author(s): K. Gaul, A. Chastain-Brown, A. Lefebvre
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium
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Montana State Health Improvement Plan, 2024-2028
Details the goals and priorities of the state of Montana to address heath disparities. Highlights three priority areas, including behavioral health, cardiovascular health, and maternal health. Discusses goals relating to rural communities and healthcare providers.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
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Details the goals and priorities of the state of Montana to address heath disparities. Highlights three priority areas, including behavioral health, cardiovascular health, and maternal health. Discusses goals relating to rural communities and healthcare providers.
Date: 09/2024
Sponsoring organization: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
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