Rural Health
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A Toolkit for Building and Growing a Sustainable Telehealth Program in Your Practice
Offers information for family practices to develop and implement telehealth strategies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on regulatory and reimbursement policies. Topics include telehealth services, payment considerations, program sustainability, licensing and technology requirements, and workflow. Includes 10 telehealth scenarios with breakdowns of payer, technology, staff, coding, and other special considerations.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organizations: American Academy of Family Physicians, Manatt Health
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Offers information for family practices to develop and implement telehealth strategies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on regulatory and reimbursement policies. Topics include telehealth services, payment considerations, program sustainability, licensing and technology requirements, and workflow. Includes 10 telehealth scenarios with breakdowns of payer, technology, staff, coding, and other special considerations.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organizations: American Academy of Family Physicians, Manatt Health
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Third Evaluation Report: Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model Evaluation
Reports on implementation experiences and outcomes for 50 Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations (NGACOs) that participated in the model in the 2018 performance year. Also evaluates findings of the model to date, from NGACOs entering the model in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Includes information on the extent to which NGACOs served rural areas.
Additional links: CMS Perspective, October 2020, Findings at a Glance, Technical Appendices
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NORC at the University of Chicago
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Reports on implementation experiences and outcomes for 50 Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations (NGACOs) that participated in the model in the 2018 performance year. Also evaluates findings of the model to date, from NGACOs entering the model in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Includes information on the extent to which NGACOs served rural areas.
Additional links: CMS Perspective, October 2020, Findings at a Glance, Technical Appendices
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NORC at the University of Chicago
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How Evidence-based Is US Dental Workforce Policy for Rural Communities?
Examines the alignment of policy and infrastructure with evidence-based strategies to promote access to oral health services for rural people. Focuses on best practices as well as barriers and facilitators to implementation of workforce strategies to increase the availability of services. Presents a scoping review of the evidence behind key strategies in the U.S. health policy context.
Author(s): Miranda Werts, Ginachukwa Amah, Elizabeth Mertz
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: Oral Health Workforce Research Center
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Examines the alignment of policy and infrastructure with evidence-based strategies to promote access to oral health services for rural people. Focuses on best practices as well as barriers and facilitators to implementation of workforce strategies to increase the availability of services. Presents a scoping review of the evidence behind key strategies in the U.S. health policy context.
Author(s): Miranda Werts, Ginachukwa Amah, Elizabeth Mertz
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: Oral Health Workforce Research Center
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A Comparison of Rural and Urban Specialty Hospitals
Results of a study examining differences in long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities in urban and rural areas. Features statistics on ownership type, location, number of beds, percent of inpatient days for rural residents, percent of inpatient days for Medicare beneficiaries, operating expenses, percent of Medicaid days, and profitability.
Author(s): George H. Pink, Andrew Osgood, Pranathi Sana
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Results of a study examining differences in long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities in urban and rural areas. Features statistics on ownership type, location, number of beds, percent of inpatient days for rural residents, percent of inpatient days for Medicare beneficiaries, operating expenses, percent of Medicaid days, and profitability.
Author(s): George H. Pink, Andrew Osgood, Pranathi Sana
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Tracking FY2019 Federal Funding to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Report covering the allocation of federal resources for opioid initiatives at the federal, state, and local level. Presents data on federal funding and offers case studies of state and county-level spending data for Ohio, Arizona, Louisiana, Washington, Tennessee, and New Hampshire. Makes policy recommendations and briefly discusses grant initiatives that target rural-specific barriers to treatment.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: Bipartisan Policy Center
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Report covering the allocation of federal resources for opioid initiatives at the federal, state, and local level. Presents data on federal funding and offers case studies of state and county-level spending data for Ohio, Arizona, Louisiana, Washington, Tennessee, and New Hampshire. Makes policy recommendations and briefly discusses grant initiatives that target rural-specific barriers to treatment.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: Bipartisan Policy Center
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Developing a Patient-Centered Approach to Optimizing Veterans' Access to Health Care Services: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Summarizes the presentations and discussions from a July, 2020 virtual workshop on strategies to increase veterans' access to healthcare services. Defines a number of measures of healthcare access and outlines potential methods of ensuring meaningful healthcare delivery to rural veterans, among others.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Summarizes the presentations and discussions from a July, 2020 virtual workshop on strategies to increase veterans' access to healthcare services. Defines a number of measures of healthcare access and outlines potential methods of ensuring meaningful healthcare delivery to rural veterans, among others.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Mental Health Treatment Among Adults: United States, 2019
Reports on the percentage of adults who have taken prescription medication for mental health or received counseling or therapy from a mental health professional in the past year. Includes data for adults living in large metropolitan, medium and small metropolitan, and nonmetro areas.
Author(s): Emily P. Terlizzi, Benjamin Zablotsky
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Reports on the percentage of adults who have taken prescription medication for mental health or received counseling or therapy from a mental health professional in the past year. Includes data for adults living in large metropolitan, medium and small metropolitan, and nonmetro areas.
Author(s): Emily P. Terlizzi, Benjamin Zablotsky
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Youth Exposure to Marijuana Advertising in Oregon's Legal Retail Marijuana Market
Uses school-based survey results to investigate marijuana advertising exposure among 8th and 11th graders in Oregon. Provides data and statistics on survey respondents' characteristics and exposure to marijuana advertising, with information broken down by urban, rural, and frontier locations.
Author(s): Steven Fiala, Julia Dilley, Erik Everson, Caislin Firth, Julie Maher
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 17
Date: 09/2020
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Uses school-based survey results to investigate marijuana advertising exposure among 8th and 11th graders in Oregon. Provides data and statistics on survey respondents' characteristics and exposure to marijuana advertising, with information broken down by urban, rural, and frontier locations.
Author(s): Steven Fiala, Julia Dilley, Erik Everson, Caislin Firth, Julie Maher
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 17
Date: 09/2020
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A Look at Workplace Safety in Agriculture
Data brief illustrates workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting jobs in 2018. Breaks down data by event or exposure, such as falls, slips, trips, contact with objects and equipment, and exposure to harmful substances or environments, among others.
Citation: The Economics Daily
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Data brief illustrates workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting jobs in 2018. Breaks down data by event or exposure, such as falls, slips, trips, contact with objects and equipment, and exposure to harmful substances or environments, among others.
Citation: The Economics Daily
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Demonstration Program: Report to Congress, 2019
Provides an overview of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration. Describes participating states' CCBHC activities including improved access to treatment and recovery support services, the range of services provided during the first year of the demonstration, how states have been reporting and utilizing required quality measures, and assess the costs to CCBHCs. This is the third of five annual reports to Congress on the CCBHC demonstration.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organizations: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Mathematica Policy Research, RAND Corporation
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Provides an overview of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration. Describes participating states' CCBHC activities including improved access to treatment and recovery support services, the range of services provided during the first year of the demonstration, how states have been reporting and utilizing required quality measures, and assess the costs to CCBHCs. This is the third of five annual reports to Congress on the CCBHC demonstration.
Date: 09/2020
Sponsoring organizations: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Mathematica Policy Research, RAND Corporation
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