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Date: Jul 24, 2024
For decades, community health workers (CHWs) provided their services outside usual healthcare reimbursement models. In recent years, with research supporting CHWs as professionals effectively assisting patients with navigating health-related social determinants, federal and private payers are exploring reimbursement mechanisms. Four rural healthcare organizations share both the impact and the continued sustainability challenges — and successes — of their CHW programs. - The Rural Monitor
...d hope CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] would see as valuable and pay for. Per-member-per-month payment or shared savings plan could be options." Breaking the Financial Sustainability Barrier: West Virginia...
Date: Jul 10, 2019
As more healthcare delivery efforts include social risk assessments, the impact of the social determinants of health is better understood. Rural clinicians, researchers, and other experts share perspectives on social isolation and loneliness. - The Rural Monitor
...d like to see a rural-specific screening tool that could also be a part of technology solutions and telehealth since transportation and access are important barriers in rural Minnesota. Singer, too, is very optimistic...
Date: Nov 20, 2019
Chronic obstructive lung disease, or COPD, is a disease with a stronghold in rural America: almost double the prevalence and double the mortality rates compared to large urban areas. Though it is a condition with no cure, it's a condition that has treatments — and hope — making proper diagnosis by spirometry imperative. - The Rural Monitor
...part of their pulmonary rehabilitation evaluation, I'd say about 20 to 30 percent of those patients don't have COPD," she said. "But 10 percent of the time, they will have abnormal lung values...
A directory of State Offices of Rural Health (SORHs).
...Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program and the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP). Part of the Indiana State Department of Health's Office of Primary Care. view details Iowa Primary Care Office and State...
Advisory committees and bodies that help inform federal policymaking and have an interest in rural health.
...Part D of the Public Health Service Act. Topics addressed include Area Health Education Centers, geriatrics, rural health, allied health, podiatry, chiropractic, mental and behavioral health, graduate psychology, pain care, and quality improvement and patient...
Date: Aug 11, 2021
The healthcare delivery model known as the swing bed program has allowed rural and Critical Access Hospitals to serve patients by keeping them in their rural communities for post-acute care. Reviewing the history of this program, experts describe early implementation and key program elements that have sustained its success for over 40 years. - The Rural Monitor
...Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). "As the program spread, national rural health associations also worked with state associations, who were also working with both public and private not-for-profit organizations. These were the origins...
Date: Nov 4, 2025
The November 2025 episode of RHIhub's podcast features an interview with Kevin Biese, MD, Chair of the Board of the American College of Emergency Physicians Geriatric Emergency Accreditation program, and Natalie Elder, MD, Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine for the University of Vermont Health Network. We examine the three-tiered Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation program and the roadmap it provides for standardized improvement of healthcare for rural providers and their geriatric patients.
...Medicare, for example. You take everything we just said, and you make it an 82-year-old with some level of dementia and multiple comorbidities and frailty. And what for us just kind of stinks...
Date: Jul 15, 2020
Advance care planning — planning for decision-making in times of medical crisis — has always been intended for all people, all ages, with or without a chronic disease. Clinicians talk about the challenges of these conversations now that COVID-19 has nudged planning from the realm of the theoretical future to current reality. - The Rural Monitor
...Medicare wellness visits that automatically included advance care planning discussions. Now, there is so much less time since most of the available minutes are spent just trying to determine what medical problems are happening...
Date: Jan 10, 2024
Rural health expert Tim Putnam, DHA, shares leadership perspectives and ideas gained from his roles as a rural hospital CEO, a member of a White House task force, and now in his academic healthcare policy position. - The Rural Monitor
...Medicare and Medicaid Services] shared all the data with us. We discovered the locations patients were going for their care; we knew how much that care was costing; we knew about 911 calls, ER visits...
Date: Jun 30, 2021
On the list of leading causes of death, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, impacts millions of rural Americans and their quality of life. Though limited treatments are available for COPD, research indicates that pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) provides major benefits, yet is currently under-prescribed and facing challenges from COVID-19 and from reimbursement policies. Researchers discuss the potential that tele-PR might bring to rural areas, and rural healthcare leaders highlight the benefits of their PR programs for service areas. - The Rural Monitor
...Medicare conditions for coverage of PR services. PR: Unfortunately, A Well-Kept Secret For over 30 years, registered nurse Gayla Oakley has seen members of her community with chronic lower respiratory diseases benefit from...