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Date: Nov 2023
Report offering analysis of stakeholder interviews and performance data of emergency medical service (EMS) in rural South Dakota. Discusses recruitment and retention of workforce, volunteerism, training, data analysis, telehealth, access, and more. Offers recommendations based on key findings and a timeline for implementation.
...telehealth, access, and more. Offers recommendations based on key findings and a timeline for implementation...
Date: 2021
Evaluates the impact of standard and telehealth referrals for childhood hearing loss on diagnosis speed, hearing-related quality of life, and school performance among 790 students in rural and tribal Alaska communities.
...telehealth referrals for childhood hearing loss on diagnosis speed, hearing-related quality of life, and school...
Date: Jan 2021
Discusses the use of telehealth to initiate tobacco cessation programs in rural areas as a means of limiting comorbidity and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights the rates of tobacco use in rural areas by type and compares rates to urban areas. Explores several examples of programs using telemedicine to implement successful models of tobacco cessation treatment in the U.S.
...telehealth to initiate tobacco cessation programs in rural areas as a means of limiting comorbidity...
Date: May 2022
Case study of policy initiatives to increase access to primary care, focusing on rural Grant County, New Mexico. Discusses challenges to expanding the primary care workforce, bringing outpatient clinics into communities, mobile clinics and telehealth, affordability, and more.
...telehealth, affordability, and more. --- Assessing the Effectiveness of Policies to Improve Access to Primary Care...
Date: Sep 2022
Comment on a July 29, 2022, Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes a discussion of the coverage of certain telehealth services after the COVID-19 public health emergency, as well as rebasing and revising the Medicare Economic Index (MEI).
...telehealth services after the COVID-19 public health emergency, as well as rebasing and revising...
Date: Mar 2021
Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Includes discussion on Medicare payment policies directly affecting rural providers and beneficiaries. Addresses payment adequacy for healthcare facilities and services, improving Medicare payment for post-acute care, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and the impact of healthcare provider consolidation. Contains information on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medicare beneficiary healthcare access, mortality, and service use. Presents an option for Medicare's coverage of telehealth beyond the public health emergency.
...telehealth beyond the public health emergency. --- MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2021 Annual...
Date: Oct 2020
Issue brief discussing telehealth treatment modalities based on a 2019 review of clinical outcomes related to telebehavioral health. Covers three state-level approaches: the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Rural Telemental Health Program (VA RTMH), which serves rural Oregon veterans, and Medicaid policies in Texas and Massachusetts. Addresses telebehavioral health policy details, implementation, and considerations for states looking to develop new telebehavioral health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
...telehealth treatment modalities based on a 2019 review of clinical outcomes related to telebehavioral health...
Date: May 2022
Details how states with Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are using MCO contract language to increase access to behavioral healthcare through service access requirements, provider network requirements, and telehealth utilization policies. Includes links to available MCO contracts and requests for applications.
...telehealth utilization policies. Includes links to available MCO contracts and requests for applications. --- State Medicaid...
Date: 2025
Offers examples of 41 innovative and high achieving programs related to the care of older adults in local communities. Includes rural examples in the areas of telehealth, outreach, and bridging the digital divide.
...telehealth, outreach, and bridging the digital divide. --- 2025 Aging Innovations & Achievement Awards Showcase: Honoring Successful...
Date: 2018
Describes two examples of innovation driven by doctors, nurses, administrators, entrepreneurs, and patients involving a major transformation of healthcare delivery. One example was an initiative developed through the University of Mississippi Medical Center where a telehealth network was created to increase patient access to care in rural areas with a focus on Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).
...telehealth network was created to increase patient access to care in rural areas with a focus...