Indiana Resources
Addressing Factors that Affect Health Care Costs: Recommendations for Indiana Stakeholders
Highlights the factors affecting healthcare costs in Indiana and makes recommendations to healthcare stakeholders, such as providers, policymakers, and consumers. Presents 16 factors that contribute to healthcare costs and discusses rural hospital closures.
Author(s): Nir Menachemi, Paul Halverson
Date: 01/2020
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Policy, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Highlights the factors affecting healthcare costs in Indiana and makes recommendations to healthcare stakeholders, such as providers, policymakers, and consumers. Presents 16 factors that contribute to healthcare costs and discusses rural hospital closures.
Author(s): Nir Menachemi, Paul Halverson
Date: 01/2020
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Policy, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Community Health Priorities: Rural Indiana 2020
An infographic that summarizes what rural Indianans see as the most pressing health concerns in their communities.
Date: 2020
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Center for Rural Engagement
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An infographic that summarizes what rural Indianans see as the most pressing health concerns in their communities.
Date: 2020
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Center for Rural Engagement
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Acceptability of Buprenorphine as A Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders: Experiences of Health Providers In Indiana Rural Counties
Slides from a presentation at the 2020 American Public Health Association conference focused on utilizing buprenorphine for Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). Examines 29 semi-structured interviews of medical and non-medical professionals from rural counties in Indiana about barriers and facilitators of buprenorphine use.
Author(s): Josephine Mwangi
Date: 2020
Sponsoring organization: Indiana University Bloomington
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Slides from a presentation at the 2020 American Public Health Association conference focused on utilizing buprenorphine for Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). Examines 29 semi-structured interviews of medical and non-medical professionals from rural counties in Indiana about barriers and facilitators of buprenorphine use.
Author(s): Josephine Mwangi
Date: 2020
Sponsoring organization: Indiana University Bloomington
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Medicaid: Efforts to Identify, Predict, or Manage High-Expenditure Beneficiaries
Describes strategies used in 7 states to manage beneficiaries' healthcare costs while ensuring quality care, and lists resources the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provides to help states identify, predict, and manage high-expenditure beneficiaries. Discusses effects of social determinants of health and staff shortages in rural areas. Includes statistics for Medicaid expenditures among beneficiaries enrolled only in Medicaid, for fiscal years 2009-2011.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 08/2019
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Describes strategies used in 7 states to manage beneficiaries' healthcare costs while ensuring quality care, and lists resources the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provides to help states identify, predict, and manage high-expenditure beneficiaries. Discusses effects of social determinants of health and staff shortages in rural areas. Includes statistics for Medicaid expenditures among beneficiaries enrolled only in Medicaid, for fiscal years 2009-2011.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 08/2019
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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The Power of Three: Rural Schools, Healthcare Providers, and a Rural Health Association Collaborate to Expand Primary Care Access Using School-Based Telehealth
Features the Indiana Rural Schools Clinic Network, a federally-funded telehealth program linking 18 rural schools in Indiana with 10 local provider organizations.
Author(s): Kay Miller Temple
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 05/2019
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Features the Indiana Rural Schools Clinic Network, a federally-funded telehealth program linking 18 rural schools in Indiana with 10 local provider organizations.
Author(s): Kay Miller Temple
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 05/2019
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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2023 Indiana Physician Data Report
An interactive data report that provides information on physician demographics, education, and distribution in Indiana. Includes links to additional sections on licensing trends, actively practicing physicians, primary care physicians and psychiatrists, and county-level geographic distribution of physicians.
Additional links: All Actively Practicing Physicians Data Snapshot, Primary Care Physicians (PCP) Data Snapshot, Psychiatrists Data Snapshot
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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An interactive data report that provides information on physician demographics, education, and distribution in Indiana. Includes links to additional sections on licensing trends, actively practicing physicians, primary care physicians and psychiatrists, and county-level geographic distribution of physicians.
Additional links: All Actively Practicing Physicians Data Snapshot, Primary Care Physicians (PCP) Data Snapshot, Psychiatrists Data Snapshot
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Addressing the Physician Shortage in Rural Indiana: Challenges & Solutions
Examines physician shortages in rural Indiana, with data on current physician availability, projected physician shortfalls between 2021-2036, and projected supply and demand. Includes factors for shortfalls as well as potential solutions.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Rural Health Association
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Examines physician shortages in rural Indiana, with data on current physician availability, projected physician shortfalls between 2021-2036, and projected supply and demand. Includes factors for shortfalls as well as potential solutions.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Rural Health Association
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Our Indiana: Stories from Rural Hoosiers
A podcast series that focuses on rural life, community engagement, healthcare access, mental health, and wellbeing in Indiana. Includes transcripts with individual episodes.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Center for Rural Engagement
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A podcast series that focuses on rural life, community engagement, healthcare access, mental health, and wellbeing in Indiana. Includes transcripts with individual episodes.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Center for Rural Engagement
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Indiana Center for Rural Engagement - Events
Provides a list of events focused on rural community engagement and healthcare issues in Indiana.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Center for Rural Engagement
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Provides a list of events focused on rural community engagement and healthcare issues in Indiana.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Center for Rural Engagement
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Indiana County Health Scorecard
Interactive map offering data at the county level for adult obesity, vaccination, infant mortality, life expectancy, smoking, suicide, and injuries.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Department of Health
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Interactive map offering data at the county level for adult obesity, vaccination, infant mortality, life expectancy, smoking, suicide, and injuries.
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Department of Health
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Last Updated: 6/18/2025