Website Search Results for: sustainability
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Date: Jul 2025
Commentary describing key features of Medicare Advantage (MA) and how they may interact with the unique limitations of rural hospitals. Offers policy recommendations to align MA expansion with rural hospital sustainability.
...sustainability. --- The Rapid Growth Of Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges To Rural Hospitals Commentary describing key features...
Date: Feb 2021
Policy brief discussing Medicare reimbursement for services provided at rural hospitals and how it impacts hospital finances. Provides policy recommendations for rural health reimbursement, and identifies and other considerations for addressing rural healthcare sustainability.
...sustainability. --- Medicare Reimbursement in Rural America Policy brief discussing Medicare reimbursement for services provided at rural...
Date: Jun 2022
Provides an overview of the prevalence of mental illness and substance use disorders in rural areas. Discusses the role of rural primary care providers in treating these conditions. Outlines federal programs and resources to support behavioral health and primary care integration. Offers policy recommendations related to access to care; workforce recruitment and retention; telehealth, technology, and broadband; and reimbursement and sustainable revenue.
...sustainable revenue. --- Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration in Rural Health Facilities: Policy Brief and Recommendations...
Date: Mar 2019
Assessment to inform recommendations for the state of Louisiana on timely, comprehensive, evidence-based, and sustainable treatment for opioid use disorder. Includes 8 recommendations, and discusses challenges in rural areas, such as high overdose rates, provider shortages, and lack of access to buprenorphine.
...sustainable treatment for opioid use disorder. Includes 8 recommendations, and discusses challenges in rural areas...
Date: Mar 2024
Provides an overview of the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation. Discusses the evolution of Medicare's support for rural hospitals through payment policies and the impact of declining inpatient volumes on rural hospitals' financial sustainability. Describes the characteristics of hospitals that converted to REH status in 2023, the first year of the designation.
...sustainability. Describes the characteristics of hospitals that converted to REH status in 2023, the first...
Date: 2024
Describes policy approaches for growth, equity, and sustainability of California's community health worker, promotora, and community health representative (CHW/P/R) workforce. See pages 11-12 for discussion of increasing recruitment and support for underrepresented health workers, including rural and Native CHW/P/Rs.
...sustainability of California's community health worker, promotora, and community health representative (CHW/P/R) workforce. See pages...
Date: May 2018
Describes ThedaCare, a 2016 participant in the Transforming Complex Care initiative from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Center for Health Care Strategies, a community paramedic (CP) program that works to extend the reach of clinic services to medically and socially complex patients in Northeastern Wisconsin. Discusses program goals, steps to establishing the CP program, and sustainability.
...sustainability. --- ThedaCare: Leveraging Community Paramedics To Bridge Persistent Gaps in Care Describes ThedaCare, a 2016 participant...
Date: Sep 2025
Transcript from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) September 2025 meeting. Covers Medicare payment operations and improving payment accuracy, a discussion with the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the Government Accountability Office's work related to improper payments in the Medicare program and opportunities to improve program sustainability, Medicare's overall financial situation, access to hospice and services under the Medicare hospice benefit for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease or cancer, and the relationship between changes in Medicare Advantage enrollment and hospital finances.
...sustainability, Medicare's overall financial situation, access to hospice and services under the Medicare hospice...
Date: Jan 2022
Discusses the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provides an overview of federal actions on healthcare and economic policy areas through early January 2022, including data on COVID-19 relief spending and vaccinations. Offers 5 new recommendations to federal agencies regarding emergency rental assistance, nutrition assistance, and tax relief for businesses. Also designates the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) leadership and coordination of a range of public health emergencies as high risk to ensure sustained executive branch and congressional attention so the nation is prepared for future emergencies.
...sustained executive branch and congressional attention so the nation is prepared for future emergencies. --- COVID...
Date: Dec 2023
Provides an overview of federal agencies that fund broadband deployment and describes each agency's key broadband programs. Discusses policy issues and considerations for Congress related to federal broadband deployment funding at these agencies, including creating a coordinated national broadband strategy, expanding oversight, and shifting to funding sustainability.
...sustainability. --- Federal Funding for Broadband Deployment: Agencies and Considerations for Congress Provides an overview of federal...