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7731. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2015 - Resources
Date: Jun 2015

Includes chapters on coordinating Medicare policy across payment models, Part B drug payment policy, value-based incentives for managing Part B drug use, multiple drug use including opioids among Medicare Part D enrollees, hospital short-stays, and new methods of measuring quality of care. Rural hospitals, rural referral centers, and rural patient populations are discussed throughout this report.

...Health Care Delivery System, June 2015 --- Includes chapters on coordinating Medicare policy across payment models...

7732. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2016 - Resources
Date: Jun 2016

Includes chapters on pricing and payment systems, Medicare drug spending, Part B drug and oncology payment policy issues, improving Part D, improving efficiency and preserving access to emergency care in rural areas, telehealth services and Medicare, and issues affecting dual-eligible beneficiaries. Rural providers and rural patient populations are discussed throughout the report.

...Health Care Delivery System, June 2016 --- Includes chapters on pricing and payment systems, Medicare drug...

7733. Characterization of Mental Illness Among US Coal Miners - Resources
Date: May 2021

Describe the prevalence of and risk factors for mental illness among 2,808 active and former coal miners from central Appalachia who received clinical care at Stone Mountain Health Services Black Lung Clinic between 2018-2020. Features statistics with breakdowns by degree of depression, pulmonary risk factors, and length of time spent working as a miner.

...Health screening · Mental health conditions · Occupational health and safety · Statistics and data · Suicide and suicide...

7734. Emerging Strategies to Ensure Access to Health Care Services: Virtual Care Strategies - Resources
Date: Nov 2017

Discusses opportunities to use telehealth to improve healthcare access and delivery to vulnerable rural and urban communities. Includes recommendations from the American Hospital Association Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities and details the benefits of telehealth services and potential policy solutions such as reimbursement, interaction of state and federal laws, broadband access, and federal research.

...Health Care Services: Virtual Care Strategies --- Discusses opportunities to use telehealth to improve healthcare access...

7735. Rural-Specific Identity and Associations with Lifestyle Behaviors and Well-Being Among Rural Cancer Survivors - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Examines how issues such as rural identity, attitudes toward rurality, and health beliefs impact rural cancer survivors' well-being. Utilizes survey data from 188 cancer survivors to discuss the relationship between sociocultural factors and quality of life, cancer fatalism, cancer information overload, rural identity and perceptions, and more.

...Health 03/2024 Cancer · Culture · Mental health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

7736. National Opioids Crisis: Help and Resources - Resources
Reviewed: Nov 2025

Highlights the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strategy to combat the opioid crisis. Shares resources and information for prevention, treatment, and recovery.

...Health and Human Services Illicit drug use · Policy · Prescription drug misuse · Public health · Wellness, health...

7737. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2018 - Resources
Date: Jun 2018

Evaluates Medicare payment issues and offers recommendations to the U.S. Congress. Includes a chapter on ensuring appropriate access to and use of hospital emergency department (ED) services that provides extensive information on rural access to ED services and identifies examples of rural off-campus emergency departments. Other sections of the report addressing rural concerns focus on post-acute care, quality and value payment programs, and medical device payment policies. Also includes a report on the effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.

...Health Care Delivery System, June 2018 --- Evaluates Medicare payment issues and offers recommendations to the U.S. Congress...

7738. Best Practice Guide: Telehealth for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities - Resources
Reviewed: Jul 2025

Offers resources on telehealth programs for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including telebehavioral health and telehealth to treat chronic conditions.

...conditions. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral health · Health conditions · Telehealth · Tribal communities...

7739. American Heart Association Midwest Rural Communities Grant - Funding
Deadline: Jan 30, 2026

Grants for rural organizations working outside of healthcare but interested in supporting community health in the Midwest Region.

...health and safety · Tobacco use · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas...

7740. Medicare Payment Basics: Physician and Other Health Professional Payment System - Resources
Date: Nov 2025

Overview of Medicare payments for physician services conducted in a variety of settings including physicians' offices, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, skilled nursing facilities and other post-acute care settings, hospices, outpatient dialysis facilities, clinical laboratories, and beneficiaries' homes.

...Health Professional Payment System --- Overview of Medicare payments for physician services conducted in a variety...