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Date: Sep 2022
Issue brief describing behavioral healthcare needs, barriers to access, and plans to integrate behavioral health and other forms of healthcare. Offering policy solutions to strengthen system capacity, connect patients to care, and create healthy, supportive environments. Notes rural disparities in mental healthcare access and rural-specific behavioral health training.
...health training. --- HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration Issue brief describing behavioral healthcare needs, barriers...
Date: Dec 2024
Describes the sociodemographic and health characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries with and without dementia who use inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs). Examines diagnoses and utilization that precede psychiatric inpatient stays and outcomes following IPF stays, including health care utilization and mortality. Includes data on Medicare IPF patients who reside in rural counties and counties that are entirely or partially in a primary care or mental health Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
...health Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA). --- Use of Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities by Medicare Beneficiaries with...
Date: Sep 2021
Reports on a needs assessment related to social determinants of health (SDOH) for special youth populations in Hawaii, including those who identify as Native Hawaiian, Compacts of Free Association (COFA) Nation/Micronesian, and rural populations. Discusses health disparities, substance use, adverse childhood experiences, cultural responsiveness, mental health and trauma, stigma issues, and data on school facilities and enrollment by county.
...Health disparities · LGB · Mental health · Schools · Social determinants of health · Stigma · Substance use and misuse...
Date: Jul 2023
Provides an overview of the No Surprises Act, which aims to protect participants, beneficiaries, and enrollees in group health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage from surprise medical bills. Details key trends in factors that will be important to evaluate the effects of the No Surprises Act, including the implementation and impacts of state surprise billing laws already in effect; trends in market consolidation and concentration; the impact of market consolidation and concentration on prices, quality, and spending; and trends in out-of-network billing. Describes a conceptual framework for considering the healthcare market effects of the No Surprises Act. Figure 4-3 shows rates of out-of-network billing prevalence by urban and rural patient residence.
...health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage from surprise medical bills. Details key trends...
Date: Jun 2013
Reviews different definitions and designations of rurality in relation to resident characteristics in a sample of 8 central Texas counties. Discusses the impact that rural definitions can have on research findings and health policy.
...Health, 2013, 960157 06/2013 Access · Frontier and remote areas · Health disparities · Health workforce shortage designations...
Date: Mar 2016
Provides data summarizing Health Insurance Marketplace enrollment activity for health insurance plans during the November 1, 2015 through February 1, 2016 enrollment period, including rural status.
...Health Insurance Marketplaces 2016 Open Enrollment Period: Final Enrollment Report --- Provides data summarizing Health Insurance...
Date: Sep 2021
Explores how 37 states evaluated and conducted oversight of telehealth for behavioral health services for Medicaid enrollees in January and February 2020. Discusses states' experiences with telehealth and the impacts of telehealth on access to care, as well as concerns regarding the impact of these services on cost and quality of care. Provides recommendations for states the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to meet the behavioral health needs of Medicaid enrollees and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.
...Health in Medicaid --- Explores how 37 states evaluated and conducted oversight of telehealth for behavioral...
Date: May 2021
Policy brief examining challenges and successes in meeting goals for the Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant, using survey data from 42 rural grantees from the years 2003-2018. Intended to inform policies and programs supporting healthcare and health in rural areas at the local level.
...health in rural areas at the local level. --- Success among Rural Health Network Development Planning...
Date: Jan 2021
Provides an overview of the 2015 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare and its Path to Equity, an organizing framework to achieve health equity. Discusses ways CMS has demonstrated progress in increasing understanding and awareness of disparities, developing and disseminating solutions to health equity, and implementing sustainable actions to achieve health equity. Considers emerging opportunities to build on this progress toward health equity. Includes information on rural disparities throughout.
...health equity, and implementing sustainable actions to achieve health equity. Considers emerging opportunities to build...
Date: Sep 2022
Provides an overview of a quality measurement framework to improve the prevention and monitoring of opioid-related overdoses and mortality among individuals with co-occurring behavioral health conditions. Identifies existing measures, measure concepts, and recommendations to serve as a starting point for quality measurement. Highlights 3 essential domains for measurement: equitable access, clinical interventions, and integrated and comprehensive care for concurrent behavioral health conditions.
...health conditions. --- Opioid-Related Outcomes among Individuals with Co-Occurring Behavioral Health Conditions Provides an overview...