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7021. Updated Medicare FFS Telehealth Trends by Beneficiary Characteristics, Visit Specialty and State, 2019-2021 - Resources
Date: Jul 2023

Examines telehealth visits by Medicare beneficiaries from 2019 through 2021. Compares telehealth use by patient characteristics, including urban and rural residence and Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), visit specialty, health conditions, and state.

...Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), visit specialty, health conditions, and state. --- Updated Medicare FFS Telehealth...

7022. Implementing the ACHIEVE Model to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease in Rural Klickitat County, Washington - Resources
Date: Apr 2013

Describes efforts by a local health department to implement the Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and Environmental Change (ACHIEVE) model. Specific objectives included completing an assessment, developing an action plan, establishing community gardens, creating biking and walking trails, and promoting worksite wellness.

...health department to implement the Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and Environmental Change (ACHIEVE) model...

7023. Texas Physician Education Loan Repayment Program (PELRP) - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Loan repayment assistance for physicians who practice in Texas, with priority given to primary care physicians who agree to practice in Health Professional Shortage Areas of the state.

...health · Behavioral health workforce · Loans, loan repayment, and loan forgiveness for health careers · Maternal health...

7024. Rural Primary Care Physician Workforce Expansion: An Opportunity for Bipartisan Legislation - Resources
Date: Dec 2013

Recommends expansion of graduate medical education (GME) support in teaching health centers (THCs) as a way to address the shortage of rural primary care physicians. Proposes an expanded version of the community health center and academic medicine partnerships (CHAMP) model that would help in the development of rural THCs.

...health centers (THCs) as a way to address the shortage of rural primary care physicians...

7025. Quantifying Rural Disparity in Healthcare Utilization in the United States: Analysis of a Large Midwestern Healthcare System - Resources
Date: Feb 2022

Analyzes patient utilization of rural versus urban outpatient clinics. Explores electronic health record data from 474,674 adult patients from June 2018 to March 2019 across variables such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, smoking status, and health status. Includes statistics and discussion of clinic utilization in relation to rural healthcare disparities.

...health record data from 474,674 adult patients from June 2018 to March 2019 across...

7026. January 2022 MedPAC Meeting Transcript - Resources
Date: Jan 2022

Transcript from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) January 2022 meeting. Covers payment adequacy and updates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services, physician and other health professional services, outpatient dialysis services and improving the ESRD payment system, skilled nursing facility services, home health agency services, long-term care hospital services, inpatient rehabilitation facility services, hospice services, and ambulatory surgical center services. Includes rural references throughout.

...health professional services, outpatient dialysis services and improving the ESRD payment system, skilled nursing facility...

7027. Planting TREES in Rural Places: Training and Rural Health Professions Education that is Community Engaged and Sustainable - Resources
Date: Jul 2022

Outlines a process for academic-community engagement and decision-making for residency education. Details benefits to hospitals and local communities, and contains tools and other resources to promote exploration and consideration of the perspectives of many people and interested parties.

...Health Professions Education that is Community Engaged and Sustainable --- Outlines a process for academic-community...

7028. Physician Distribution and Health Care Challenges in Rural and Inner-City Areas - Resources
Date: Feb 1998

In-depth review of the geographic maldistribution of physicians. Discusses issues that impact rural physician supply. Includes policy recommendations to improve the geographic distribution of physicians and address rural physician shortages.

...Health Care Challenges in Rural and Inner-City Areas --- In-depth review of the geographic...

7029. West Virginia Hospital Assistance Grant Program - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Grants for financially vulnerable hospitals in West Virginia for at-risk patient care services or health information systems technology sharing.

...health information systems technology sharing. --- West Virginia Hospital Assistance Grant Program West Virginia Health Care...

7030. MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Hospital Inpatient PPS and the Long-term Care Hospital PPS for FY 2023 - Resources
Date: Jun 2022

Comments on a May 10, 2022, Federal Register proposed rule revising the hospital inpatient and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment systems (PPS). Discusses proposals on rate-setting in both the inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) and LTCH PPS, promoting stability in the IPPS and LTCH PPS, creating a permanent supplemental payment for Puerto Rico and Indian Health Service (IHS) hospitals, establishing a payment adjustment for domestic N95 respirators, adding new measures to the LTCH quality reporting program, and establishing overarching principles for measuring equity and health care quality disparities across CMS quality programs.

...health care quality disparities across CMS quality programs. 06/2022 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Health disparities...